[gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

[gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

[Roger Mason]

Hi,

I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an
AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU.

I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try
to boot from the CD it hangs, the last message being:

io scheduler deadline registered (default)

I have tried booting with nosata and with doscsi but the boot process
always hangs.  A 2006.1 x86 minimal CD boots perfectly.

Can anyone offer suggestions as to what may be wrong?

Thanks,

Roger


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Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

[Andrew Gaydenko]

======= On Tuesday 01 May 2007, you wrote: =======
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an
> AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU.
> 
> I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try
> to boot from the CD it hangs, the last message being:
> 
> io scheduler deadline registered (default)
> 
> I have tried booting with nosata and with doscsi but the boot process
> always hangs.  A 2006.1 x86 minimal CD boots perfectly.
> 
> Can anyone offer suggestions as to what may be wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roger
> 
> 

May be this? - http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-505165.html
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Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

[David Snider]

Roger Mason wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
> Andrew Gaydenko <a@gaydenko.com> writes:
>
>   
>> ======= On Tuesday 01 May 2007, you wrote: =======
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an
>>> AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU.
>>>
>>> I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try
>>> to boot from the CD it hangs, the last message being:
>>>
>>> io scheduler deadline registered (default)
>>>
>>>       
>> May be this? - http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-505165.html
>>     
>
> Thanks for your reply.  Unfortunately I don't think that is the
> problem - lspci reports this:
>
> 00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
> 00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller(rev a1)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger
>
>   
I had the exact same issue last month with some new hardware, booting 
with noacpi or noapci (can't really remember) did the trick... Once I 
was installed and had a 2.6.20 kernel, I had no other issues.
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Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

[Roger Mason]

Thomas Kear <thomas.kear@gmail.com> writes:

>> > I had the exact same issue last month with some new hardware, booting
>> > with noacpi or noapci (can't really remember) did the trick... Once I
>> > was installed and had a 2.6.20 kernel, I had no other issues.
>>
>
> For what it's worth, in 99.9% of cases, the option you want is 'noapic'.  It 
> is by far the largest complaint relating to non-booting livecds on the amd64 
> architecture.

Thank you to all who replied: the 'noapic' option was the required
fix.

Roger

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