This problem is described in the following thread, though the temporary resolution of booting the kernel with 'ide=nodma' doesn't seem to work, so I can't even get in and edit and recompile the kernel source. =\ ... I can't do anything since the boot locks up. http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.1/0720.html Seems to be a problem with Maxtor's UDMA stuff, but the fix there supposedly works. What do I do for now? I just spent all night backing up data so I could try Gentoo out. Aw man.. Thanks
you can boot an older 1.2 ISO for the moment... As I've commented on some other bugs, we are working hard to bring a new gentoo kernel out and use it for new CDs hopefully resolving issues like this.
I'm having the same problem with livecd-1.4rc1-r2 on a Dell Inspirion 2600 laptop. I've booted into an existing (debian woody) installation and lspci shows the IDE interface is an Intel device (248a rev 02) w/ subsystem ID 4541. Hard drive is a Hitachi DK23DA-20. I'm stepping back to 1.2 to give that a shot. schwim !@! bitrail.com
*** Bug 11474 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Not sure if this is the same exact problem, as its on older hardware: This is on an older AMD K6-2 system... I just ran into the same error, LiveCD-1.4-RC2 halting at Partition Check. To get around this I booted from a 1.2 install cd, and could get to the login prompt, however as soon as I tried to access the hard drive (fdisk) the system locked up again. I noted that the kernel was disabling DMA mode on the hard drive just before the partition check (both 1.4 and 1.2 cds), so I rebooted again and logged in. This time I used the 'hdparm -d1 /dev/hda' command from the 1.4 install guide to turn DMA mode back on before I did anything with the hard drive and the system has been installing fine since.
Well, finally after a few months of running Redhat 8 and finally getting fed up with it, I thought I'd try Gentoo again. I grabbed the rc3 LiveCD and thought I'd try it out again. This time I can actually get to a prompt, Yay! But it still hangs unless I specify noscsi and nonet. It hangs on Storage Device detecting without 'noscsi' and it hangs on detecting network drivers at something like "dx848"... I can't remember now, and don't wanna reboot again. :) I haven't actually gotten around to installing Gentoo yet, I just wanted to see if the LiveCD worked better now, and it does! :)
maybe you could try latest iso at www.gentoo.org/~livewire has new hardware detection, and let me know how it goes? :)
Does the latest 1.4 CD work?
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
