Extremely slow (frozen?) boot from LiveCD

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sr71pav · Post by **sr71pav** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 3:55 am

I'm trying to install Gentoo onto a Netfinity 5500 M20 (currently running suse). Using the 2004.1 livecd, it takes quite awhile to do the "Filling fliesystem portion." It does eventually finish that, but then it gets to where it says "Booting" and just seems to hang. It's been sitting there for the past 20 minutes or so. I've used this same CD on other systems (not Netfinity). I'm using the "gentoo-nofb doscsi" kernel/options.

Here's the specs:
4xPIII Xeon 500
2.3 GB RAM
IBM ServeRAID (RAID 5)

Some_Other_Nerd · Post by **Some_Other_Nerd** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 2:48 pm

Try booting one of the smp kernels, gentoo-nofb might not have support for multiple processors.

RobMcM · Post by **RobMcM** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 5:43 pm

You might have got a bad image, (use the md5sum to check it) or maybe a bad burn... I had this problem once, I'd used a quick-erased CD-RW and it didn't burn right (nero cd-speed showed loads of red sectors). Another burn to a CD-R and it worked fine (also a full erase then full burn worked to my CD-RW).

sr71pav · Post by **sr71pav** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 9:44 pm

I probably should've mentioned that I'd tried SMP kernel already with same results.

Seems like it was in fact a bad burn. A new download and burn and it worked like a charm. Whatever, so long as it works!

Thanks