[gentoo-dev] Hang on RAMDISK with rc6-r9 iso

[gentoo-dev] Hang on RAMDISK with rc6-r9 iso

[Adam Elliott]

Hello,
I'm trying to install rc6-r9, but booting from the CD freezes at:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0

It just hangs... nothing happens. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
  -Adam


PS: My system, in brief: Athlon 900, 768 MB RAM, Voodoo 3 PCI, ATA 100
Hard drive, MSI Motherboard with VIA KT133 / VT82C686B chipsets.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Hang on RAMDISK with rc6-r9 iso

[Daniel Robbins]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 04:00:12PM -0400, Adam Elliott wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to install rc6-r9, but booting from the CD freezes at:
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> 
> It just hangs... nothing happens. Any thoughts?

I didn't test this rev of the CD, just the previous one.  I'll test
it here now.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] Hang on RAMDISK with rc6-r9 iso

[Daniel Robbins]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 04:00:12PM -0400, Adam Elliott wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to install rc6-r9, but booting from the CD freezes at:
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> 
> It just hangs... nothing happens. Any thoughts?

I just tested the 1.0_rc6-r9 CD and it booted perfectly for me.  It seems
strange that the system should just lock while the kernel is booting.  Is
it possible that your ISO image somehow got corrupted, or that your CD burn
did not run properly?  I'll post md5sums to the ix86-linux-gnu directory
on ibiblio.org right now which allow you to easily see if your download
is corrupt.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] Hang on RAMDISK with rc6-r9 iso

[Holger Brueckner]

> > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> >
> > It just hangs... nothing happens. Any thoughts?
>
> I just tested the 1.0_rc6-r9 CD and it booted perfectly for me.  It seems
> strange that the system should just lock while the kernel is booting.  Is
> it possible that your ISO image somehow got corrupted, or that your CD
burn
> did not run properly?  I'll post md5sums to the ix86-linux-gnu directory
> on ibiblio.org right now which allow you to easily see if your download
> is corrupt.

hmm, this is very strange .. afther bnooting with loadlin yesterday i got
the message
that kernel is trying to get read access beyond the ramdisk limits .. so it
can't find
init :( this could be a problem with loadlin, but i don't think so ...

did you check it with a scsi system ?? i can uncompress the initrd and mount
it on my
working gentoo box, so i don't think my download is corrupt ...

cya

Holger

Re: [gentoo-dev] Hang on RAMDISK with rc6-r9 iso

[Holger Brueckner]

just checked the checksums .. they're ok .. i burned it with cdrecord,
which always worked so far.

cya

Holger

----- Original Message -----
From: "Holger Brueckner" <lists@net-labs.de>
To: <gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Hang on RAMDISK with rc6-r9 iso


> > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> > >
> > > It just hangs... nothing happens. Any thoughts?
> >
> > I just tested the 1.0_rc6-r9 CD and it booted perfectly for me.  It
seems
> > strange that the system should just lock while the kernel is booting.
Is
> > it possible that your ISO image somehow got corrupted, or that your CD
> burn
> > did not run properly?  I'll post md5sums to the ix86-linux-gnu directory
> > on ibiblio.org right now which allow you to easily see if your download
> > is corrupt.
>
> hmm, this is very strange .. afther bnooting with loadlin yesterday i got
> the message
> that kernel is trying to get read access beyond the ramdisk limits .. so
it
> can't find
> init :( this could be a problem with loadlin, but i don't think so ...
>
> did you check it with a scsi system ?? i can uncompress the initrd and
mount
> it on my
> working gentoo box, so i don't think my download is corrupt ...
>
> cya
>
> Holger
>
>
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