gentoo hangs during boot

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fourblades · Post by **fourblades** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:44 pm

hi

i have a western digital 200GB SATA harddisk (WD2000JC-00HBB0) connected to VIA 8237 SATA IDE controller. (under windows my hdd shows up as SCSI hard drive).

when i try to boot gentoo linux 2004.3 universal live cd, it hangs during boot at the message "Scanning for sata_sis...", when option 'gentoo doataraid doscsi' is given. When these options not given, it boots ok, but my HDD not show up, and when i shutdown my system, it hangs at 'disabling usb hotplug...'.

when i use the 2004.2 version, dmesg found my harddisk with message "hde: WD2000JC....", but hde does not show up at '/dev', means i cannot access my HDD. (also does not show CHS info in dmesg), but it works well if i use emachines kernel, but can i install regular 2004.3 on a regular pc using this kernel?

genstef · Post by **genstef** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 9:35 pm

You could try to install from another livecd like the kanotix livecd, that has afaik the best hardware support.
http://www.kanotix.com

niccload · Post by **niccload** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:03 am

Fourblades - I get the same problem when booting from LiveCD 2004.3 using "gentoo doscsi".

I dont use sata, but an adaptec 29160 SCSI card, and it still hangs on the sata_sis module...

This is obviously a problem, so why arn't there any answers???

Gunde · Post by **Gunde** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 6:06 pm

Very many seem to have this problem, but nobody knows why. I have a Nforce3 mb and the 2004.3 livecd hangs on sata_sis and USB hotplug (if I skip doscsi).
noapic doesn't help.

samppa · Post by **samppa** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 5:43 pm

Same problem here. Trying to install from SCSI DVD drive to a system with nforce3 SATA. Need to have both SCSI and SATA.

genstef · Post by **genstef** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 7:08 pm

Do not whine here, just use another livecd to install gentoo. If you want someone to blame then go to bugzilla(http://bugs.gentoo.org) and file bugs, I am sure you will complain to the right person then. Maybe you can even provide patches and make Gentoo better.

samppa · Post by **samppa** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 7:27 pm

genstef wrote:Do not whine here, just use another livecd to install gentoo. If you want someone to blame then go to bugzilla(http://bugs.gentoo.org) and file bugs, I am sure you will complain to the right person then. Maybe you can even provide patches and make Gentoo better.

Sorry, I did not mean to whine. I am not blaming anyone either, just reporting a problem. Anyway, I filed a bug report:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72661

genstef · Post by **genstef** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:34 pm

Thanks, I advise you again please use another livecd to instlall gentoo in the meantime, you really do not need to wait for the livecd team to fix bugs and its nothing bad to install gentoo from another livecd, in fact many people(like me) only use other livvecds because Gentoos livecd is really not that good, and other livecd are better in most cases.