Gentoo 1.4 boot CD trouble

tigrezno · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jun 2002 Posts: 251 Location: Spain

I have just downloaded the autobootable livecd of Gentoo 1.4 and it doesn't boot, while 1.2 cd did it. the screen stops at ISO Linux. What's the matter with this last version??

garo · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 9:24 pm Post subject:

i have no problems with it, Maybe a bad cd ?
I would suggest burning it again...

tigrezno · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jun 2002 Posts: 251 Location: Spain

BlackBart · Apprentice Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 252

try making a boot floppy.

aardvark · Guru Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 576

tigrezno · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jun 2002 Posts: 251 Location: Spain

I get this error when booting:

Can't find sector size. Assuming 0800

What can it be?

gorshing · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2002 Posts: 39 Location: Oklahoma, US

I get this error also. I tried installing 1.4 but my computer just restarts .. no error message or anything.

So I tried it with 1.2 and this error message shows up.

I googled for 'assuming 0800 linux' but the only things showing up is probably a bad disk/CD-ROM or your CD-ROM can't handle the CDR. I haven't gotten past this error yet. Butg I am going to try and find a good scan disk utility and check out my disk.

My CD-ROM is a HP CDWriter+ 7200 and my hard drive is a Seagate ST39140N.

Hopefully somebody knows what the problem is.

Caviel · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2002 Posts: 22

Did you make sure that the CD was closed when writing the ISO image? Some CD-ROMs can read an "open" CD-R, some can't. Make sure the session is closed on the burned disk, then try it again.