SOLVED: First boot to install freezes on cdrom mount

ignavia · Last edited by ignavia on Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:26 am; edited 1 time in total

I've never attempted to install Gentoo before. I'm trying this on a Dell Laitiude CPi with a P2-233. I downloaded the .iso torrent and it md5summed fine. I burned it with Gnomebaker (twice), and both CDs lock up when trying to mount the cdrom. I've tried no boot options, and I've tried -nofb (which is the only way I can see everything on the screen).

To be more specific, here's what I get:

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3604

Hi, ignavia,
When you build you kernel, did you build the CDROM support? How did you build it: as a module or in the kernel? What kind of file system did you use for CDROM? Did you build it's support in the kernel or as a module?

Thank you.

ignavia · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:49 pm Post subject:

I didn't build the kernel. I haven't done anything. I put the cd in and booted, and it won't fully boot. It freezes at the point I listed.

MickKi · Veteran Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 1173

There's a list of cheatcodes you can pass on to the CD like gentoo no{apic,agp,apm,audio,ddc}, no{pcmcia,scsi,swap,usb}, do{scsi,pcmcia} etc. I am not sure what these codes are in detail, but they should be somewhere on the server from which you downloaded the LiveCD - or someone could post a link here? Try them one at a time until the CD boots successfully.

Good luck!

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Mick

ignavia · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:37 pm Post subject:

belly · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 32

I had a problem like this on an old machine I had and knoppix. The problem ended up being that the CDROM didnt support DMA, but the Knoppix CD was trying to access the CDROM using DMA. I don't recall if Gentoo is able to turn off DMA for liveCD boots or not, but if it is ... try turning off DMA (my guess is something like nodma in the boot command arguments).
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ignavia · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 2:59 am Post subject:

"gentoo nodma" made no difference.

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3604

Hi, ignavia,
Could you try to boot the Knoppix CD, or maybe the Windows CD?

We need to make sure that it's supported by Linux at all first.

What is you hardware configuration? What .iso image did you burn?

Thank you.

ignavia · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:25 am Post subject:

YEah, Knoppix works fine, and Ubuntu's installed now. nodma is the wrong option. I needed "gentoo-nofb ide=nodma." Thanks.

belly · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 32

Ahh, that's the one. Glad to hear it worked.

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madhusker · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject:

None of the options for boot would fix my machine. I had to physically swap ide cables so the live CD was finally happy. Does gentoo automagically assume all CD drives in the universe are on /dev/hda????