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 1HjE5I-0000Fu-S0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 12:37:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l42CZ1lx022444; Wed, 2 May 2007 12:35:01 GMT Received: from fitzgerald.ucs.mun.ca (mx5.mun.ca [134.153.232.57]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l42CTXBh016143 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 12:29:34 GMT Received: from minnie.esd.mun.ca (minnie.esd.mun.ca [134.153.36.8]) by fitzgerald.ucs.mun.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l42CTVVJ024898 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 09:59:31 -0230 Received: from minnie.esd.mun.ca (minnie.esd.mun.ca [134.153.36.8]) by minnie.esd.mun.ca (8.13.7/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l42CTUro016887 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 09:59:31 -0230 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem References: <46377807.2070607@thesniderpad.com> <200705022335.38460.thomas.kear@gmail.com> From: Roger Mason Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 09:59:30 -0230 In-Reply-To: <200705022335.38460.thomas.kear@gmail.com> (Thomas Kear's message of "Wed, 2 May 2007 23:35:34 +1200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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=us-ascii X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.001005 (2006-08-29) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-11.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,USER_IN_WHITELIST version=3.1.5 X-Spam-Report: -10 USER_IN_WHITELIST From: address is in the user's white-list * -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 134.153.232.57 X-Archives-Salt: ae695cda-4be0-4b31-a66d-b3d04e9a6cce X-Archives-Hash: 49715c049ab3cb8287c58743cb5f8bd3 Thomas Kear 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list