minimal install cd locking up

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SandStar · Post by **SandStar** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 1:04 pm

I'm trying to install Gentoo using the minimal install cd on a (very) old laptop.
It's a HP Omnibook Xe2 that has run Gentoo for several years.

It now has a new harddisk but the newest install cd is failing at me.

At first it didn't got any further than:

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scanning for wd7000...

Using the noload=pata_qdi suggested here I was able to continue the booting process only to have it halted again with the following message:

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Looking for the cdrom
Attempting to mount media:- /dev/hda1
Media not found
No bootable medium found. Waiting for new devices...
Looking for the cdrom
Attempting to mount media:- /dev/hda1
Media not found
could not find CD to boot, something else needed!
Determining root device...
Could not find the root block device in .

Any suggestions?

scouter389 · Post by **scouter389** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:58 pm

Have you double-checked the integrity of the iso image? I had a bad image do this to me once. re-downloading the image cleared the problem

GWilliam · Post by **GWilliam** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:49 pm

#NULL

Jaglover · Post by **Jaglover** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:13 pm

Don't you have other Linux CD-s laying around? For instance, I have almost all versions of Knoppix, SystemRescueCD, GRML, several Ubuntus. One of them certainly will boot.

d2_racing · Post by **d2_racing** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:54 am

Yeah, try SystemRescueCD, I'm sure that you will be able to boot with that one.

scouter389 · Post by **scouter389** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:56 pm

I also use SystemRescueCD myself to do an install. It is based on Gentoo and really allows you to get a feel for your hardware on recent kernels.

d2_racing · Post by **d2_racing** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:40 pm

Indeed, it's the best CD that I know

Jaglover · Post by **Jaglover** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:49 pm

d2_racing wrote:Indeed, it's the best CD that I know

Ahhaa! The best CD is GRML!!!

But who cares if you just need to boot?

bus_drivr · Post by **bus_drivr** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:52 am

If the bios supports netboot I've used that once for a http://boot.kernel.org/
It was pretty cool. No Gentoo image to choose from though ;-(

SandStar · Post by **SandStar** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 11:55 pm

small update. The problem persists. The ISO checks out fine.

I've currently "fixed" it by installing Debain stable and it has been running fine ever since.

d2_racing · Post by **d2_racing** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:45 am

Debian stable ? Which kernel version are you using ?

SandStar · Post by **SandStar** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:05 pm

2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Mon Jun 21 05:58:44 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux