Problem fixed, sorta.

Guest · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 7:39 pm Post subject: Problem fixed, sorta.

Ok, when trying to install Gentoo 1.2 from stage 1, it always hung randomly during the bootstrap. To get around this, I installed Gentoo from a stage3 tarball which was successful. Then.. from that installation, I installed Gentoo again, this time from stage1, all all went well!

Was I right in assuming the install kernel has some option that doesn't agree with my hardware ?

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Most likely you didn't choose something correctly when starting from stage1 originally.
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Guest · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 8:16 pm Post subject:

I had installed Gentoo many times before, only this time with a different PC. And I did the stage1 from my installed stage3 system exactly the same as I did it from the install shell. Exactly.

For it to fail about 9 times from the installer, and work the first try from an installed stage3 system.. Don't think it's user error O_o

Guest · Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 2:14 am Post subject:

I stand corrected. It was my RAM.