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If you have FC3 up and running, why not just install Gentoo from that? |
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Make a new partition and copy the Gentoo tarball into it. Then chroot into |
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in and install! It's quite easy to do it that way. :) |
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--Josh Hunhol |
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> Sad Jack wrote: |
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>> Cliff Rowley wrote: |
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>>>Sad Jack wrote: |
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>>>>Whenever I try and boot from the install CD (the same one used to |
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>>>>install on my desktop, the current universal 2005) installation hangs |
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>>>>after 'ok installing the kernel'. Nothing seems to happen, no disk |
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>>>>access (CD or Hard drive). |
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>>>> |
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>>>>I've tried other distros..Suse, Ubuntu, Puppy, the only one that gets |
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>>>> me |
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>>>>passed the above is Slackware 10.1 which goes through the complete |
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>>>>install but cannot write lilo to boot. Just says it can't write and |
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>>>> says |
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>>>>to do it manually. |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>>>Is there some kind of boot or virus protection switched on in your BIOS? |
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>>> Perhaps something that prevents the boot loader from being |
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>>>overwritten? Although that doesn't explain the detection weirdness. |
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>>>Only thing I can think of, aside from some funky unsupported hardware. |
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>>>>I get the feeling that its at the hardware detection stage that is the |
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>>>>problem as live CD's when booted in failsafe load and work OK. I can't |
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>>>>find a failsafe option to boot Gentoo, is there one? |
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>>>Hmm interesting. Maybe if you could boot Slackware 10.1 or boot the |
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>>>livecd's in failsafe and save your dmesg output it might provide some |
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>>>more insight (maybe). |
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>> Thanks for the replies. |
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>> |
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>> some interesting suggestions there especially about the bios. Can't |
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>> check it just now as I'm mid way through installing Fedora Core 3 which |
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>> at least is installing the packages same as Slacware 10.1. Not got to |
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>> the stage where grub is written yet, so heres fingers crossed that at |
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>> least I will get some form of linux on this thing. |
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>> I'll check out the bios as soon as it reboots |
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>> Cheers |
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> |
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> OK |
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> |
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> FC 3 is loaded and running. Grub was installed and works fine. |
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> FC3 has not detected the graphics or the screen correctly and at the |
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> moment I am stuck with 800x600 resolution or lower. |
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> I would suggest at this stage its a hardware detection problem with the |
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> other distro and that FC3 is a little more accomodating! |
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> Its not my preferred install and I'll keep looking for a way to get |
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> gentoo so if there are any more suggestions, please keep them coming! |
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> By the way there is no settings in the bios that cause a problem with |
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> writing the bootloader. |
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> Thanks again |
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