From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H4QrK-0001BG-NF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:58:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l09NvMOJ027930; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:57:22 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.233]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l09NqwZ1026267 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:52:59 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i21so3168305wra for ; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:52:58 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bzMXKTlO+pQY7zdgzmQWAEV4CyKucuo+Pj+Q8oOAE/5bHLnWCu5Bun8ElVnJjuKoc/n5UzkbpQqSJE079WaCMK3b6cEl36pC7kbylDeHzx9ZPdtEkeT1EE/SWLLMUf789Y00YSHH/Jq3MRlh1ukxbHp5WWtScQVb+xRNMVwa8eg= Received: by 10.78.18.3 with SMTP id 3mr4550408hur.1168386777877; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:52:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.134.8 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:52:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8cd1ed20701091552q7b40c97cqb9cf6ea48ba0ab96@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:52:57 +1300 From: "Kent Fredric" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo cannot boot (Help!!!) In-Reply-To: <20070109232539.37329.qmail@web90403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070109232539.37329.qmail@web90403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Archives-Salt: 89c3c89e-29e6-40f8-a768-a55351b87936 X-Archives-Hash: 1fc95293100f550099a7610f5fdf8641 On 1/10/07, rami jiossy wrote: > > > Hi; > i am booting gentoo on my Napa machine but it freezes on "copying read-write > contents to tmpfs". > any help? i am using gentoo i686 livecd. > > with minimal-x86 i am booting fine, but it keeps failing in installer and > sometimes decides to shutdown for some reason. > > Thanks > > sounds like a lack of ram, or you've opted to make the CD removable, which mounts all 700meg of CD into ram to do so irrc, so if your short on ram and have chosen options which match that description that could be the culprit. -- /