Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: David Snider <dsnider@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 17:37:12
Message-Id: 46377807.2070607@thesniderpad.com
1 Roger Mason wrote:
2 > Hello Andrew,
3 >
4 > Andrew Gaydenko <a@××××××××.com> writes:
5 >
6 >
7 >> ======= On Tuesday 01 May 2007, you wrote: =======
8 >>
9 >>> Hi,
10 >>>
11 >>> I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an
12 >>> AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU.
13 >>>
14 >>> I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try
15 >>> to boot from the CD it hangs, the last message being:
16 >>>
17 >>> io scheduler deadline registered (default)
18 >>>
19 >>>
20 >> May be this? - http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-505165.html
21 >>
22 >
23 > Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I don't think that is the
24 > problem - lspci reports this:
25 >
26 > 00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
27 > 00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller(rev a1)
28 >
29 > Thanks,
30 >
31 > Roger
32 >
33 >
34 I had the exact same issue last month with some new hardware, booting
35 with noacpi or noapci (can't really remember) did the trick... Once I
36 was installed and had a 2.6.20 kernel, I had no other issues.
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