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From: Holger Brueckner <lists@××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Hang on RAMDISK with rc6-r9 iso
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 03:26:44
Message-Id: 002f01c1345a$78c40da0$c800000a@netlabs.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Hang on RAMDISK with rc6-r9 iso by Daniel Robbins
1 > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
2 > >
3 > > It just hangs... nothing happens. Any thoughts?
4 >
5 > I just tested the 1.0_rc6-r9 CD and it booted perfectly for me. It seems
6 > strange that the system should just lock while the kernel is booting. Is
7 > it possible that your ISO image somehow got corrupted, or that your CD
8 burn
9 > did not run properly? I'll post md5sums to the ix86-linux-gnu directory
10 > on ibiblio.org right now which allow you to easily see if your download
11 > is corrupt.
12
13 hmm, this is very strange .. afther bnooting with loadlin yesterday i got
14 the message
15 that kernel is trying to get read access beyond the ramdisk limits .. so it
16 can't find
17 init :( this could be a problem with loadlin, but i don't think so ...
18
19 did you check it with a scsi system ?? i can uncompress the initrd and mount
20 it on my
21 working gentoo box, so i don't think my download is corrupt ...
22
23 cya
24
25 Holger

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Hang on RAMDISK with rc6-r9 iso Holger Brueckner <lists@××××××××.de>