Here are my system specs: AMD Athlon 2600+ 512MB RAM nVidia GeForce 4600 Ti 128MB 80GB Seagate HD Liteon CD/DVD Burner Netgear 10/100 NIC On bootup i get the gentoo prompt to pick the kernel/options im going to use, when just pressing enter the result is a black screen and no activity. If gentoo-nofb is used the computer freezes right after "SMP motherboard not detected." There is no difference between noapic or any other option. I have tried knoppix 3.9 as well, with the exact same results. Windows does install/work correctly. With APIC on in the bios it freezes after: "task migration cache decay timeout: 1 msecs." I have checked the md5 sum of the iso, i have tried the noapic and other kernel options as well as the gentoo-nofb. I have tried turning apic on/off in the bios and have tried updating my bios. I have tried a different cdrom drive as well. I see no errors in the output, that's just what it dies after. I have no idea what to do, all other linux cd's boot just find, redhat, fedora core, etc... I'm at a loss here and I really want gentoo back on this machine (have gotten used to all my boxes being gentoo'ed up) Any help would be great. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot 2005.0 LiveCD 2.Select: gentoo, or gentoo-nofb, with any other options Actual Results: Black screen with gentoo kernel, crash after "SMP motherboard not detected." with APIC off in the bios options and noapic passed to kernel, crash after "task migration cache decay timeout: 1 msecs." with APIC on in the bios options. Expected Results: Booted to the gentoo livecd kernel and allowed me to install.
Ignore all of this, it was a bad paste off a forum where i posted the problem originally: > I see no errors in the output, that's just what it dies after. > > I have no idea what to do, all other linux cd's boot just find, redhat, fedora > core, etc... I'm at a loss here and I really want gentoo back on this machine > (have gotten used to all my boxes being gentoo'ed up) > > Any help would be great.
(In reply to comment #1) > Ignore all of this, it was a bad paste off a forum where i posted the problem > originally: When i said that i was only reffering to what i left commented below it, not to the whole bug, i accidentally pasted some stuff at the bottom. 2.4 kernel distros do boot how ever. Sorry! I should have done this in the morning!
Try: gentoo-nofb nosmp noapic nolapic acpi=off
(In reply to comment #3) > Try: gentoo-nofb nosmp noapic nolapic acpi=off Hey that worked! So what do you think the cause could possibly be? I'm going to play around with those boot params some to see what exactly did it, ill post any info I find when I find it incase it helps someone else :-). Thank you so much!
Well I am a happy man now, here are the params that do it for me: boot: gentoo nosmp noapic nolapic Boots great and works :-) now this desktop wont be a waste of space any more!
Figures it was the apic stuff... glad to see that you got it working...
