From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.hunholz.com (rand.hunholzwebhosting.com [64.92.160.82]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4UIhvcX014755 for ; Mon, 30 May 2005 18:43:58 GMT Received: from www.hunholz.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.hunholz.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018439769F for ; Mon, 30 May 2005 14:48:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 69.134.170.70 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jhunholz); by www.hunholz.com with HTTP; Mon, 30 May 2005 14:48:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1387.69.134.170.70.1117478934.squirrel@69.134.170.70> In-Reply-To: <4295F4E6.2070104@tiscali.co.uk> References: <4295BB36.8080706@tiscali.co.uk> <4295DF24.6040706@gmail.com> <4295EEF7.409@tiscali.co.uk> <4295F4E6.2070104@tiscali.co.uk> Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 14:48:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Install problems From: "Josh Hunholz" To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Archives-Salt: 72e9eaeb-ec1b-4892-83a8-52a2e3725a04 X-Archives-Hash: 640e89355cac642152216a8bf4083eb9 If you have FC3 up and running, why not just install Gentoo from that? Make a new partition and copy the Gentoo tarball into it. Then chroot into in and install! It's quite easy to do it that way. :) --Josh Hunhol > Sad Jack wrote: >> Cliff Rowley wrote: >> >>>Sad Jack wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Whenever I try and boot from the install CD (the same one used to >>>>install on my desktop, the current universal 2005) installation hangs >>>>after 'ok installing the kernel'. Nothing seems to happen, no disk >>>>access (CD or Hard drive). >>>> >>>>I've tried other distros..Suse, Ubuntu, Puppy, the only one that gets >>>> me >>>>passed the above is Slackware 10.1 which goes through the complete >>>>install but cannot write lilo to boot. Just says it can't write and >>>> says >>>>to do it manually. >>> >>> >>>Is there some kind of boot or virus protection switched on in your BIOS? >>> Perhaps something that prevents the boot loader from being >>>overwritten? Although that doesn't explain the detection weirdness. >>> >>>Only thing I can think of, aside from some funky unsupported hardware. >>> >>> >>>>I get the feeling that its at the hardware detection stage that is the >>>>problem as live CD's when booted in failsafe load and work OK. I can't >>>>find a failsafe option to boot Gentoo, is there one? >>> >>> >>>Hmm interesting. Maybe if you could boot Slackware 10.1 or boot the >>>livecd's in failsafe and save your dmesg output it might provide some >>>more insight (maybe). >>> >>> >> >> Thanks for the replies. >> >> some interesting suggestions there especially about the bios. Can't >> check it just now as I'm mid way through installing Fedora Core 3 which >> at least is installing the packages same as Slacware 10.1. Not got to >> the stage where grub is written yet, so heres fingers crossed that at >> least I will get some form of linux on this thing. >> >> I'll check out the bios as soon as it reboots >> >> Cheers > > OK > > FC 3 is loaded and running. Grub was installed and works fine. > > FC3 has not detected the graphics or the screen correctly and at the > moment I am stuck with 800x600 resolution or lower. > > I would suggest at this stage its a hardware detection problem with the > other distro and that FC3 is a little more accomodating! > > Its not my preferred install and I'll keep looking for a way to get > gentoo so if there are any more suggestions, please keep them coming! > > By the way there is no settings in the bios that cause a problem with > writing the bootloader. > > Thanks again > -- > gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list