Hi! I am trying to boot my machine from the 2006.0 minimall install image burned to cd. My devices are set up properly (windows works). I have a P4 with HT and 1gb ram. What happens is i hit enter, it probes some modules then says Activating udev and hangs. If i wait 5min it starts deleting every single file on / and fails on each one with no permission. I have tried booting this way too: gentoo noudev dodevfs which ended up the same way. Contact me if you need any more specific info but please also see this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=3281051
Screenshot is now available in the forum thread and www.maciekish.com/incoming/PIC000045.jpg this is what happens after selecting text mode and ftp install (not acpi=off or safe mode but neither of them worked so i dint try them again)
You can't use devfs anymore on newer 2.6 kernels, it simply doesn't exist. Try doing some more thorough troubleshooting. I would suggest looking at: gentoo-nofb nosmp noapic nolapic acpi=off As for the forums thread, since I do most of my work offline via email, it's pretty worthless to me to have all of the pertinent information in an online-only resource. Please paste any pertinent information into this bug report.
Also, I think you're a bit confused seeing as how you said you selected "ftp install" which isn't any kind of an option under Gentoo.
sorry ftp install was about suse but no niether of them boots on my machine until i was tipped to turn of NX in bios and pass these parameters to the kernel: pci=nosort dousb this made it work!
So... if you've found a solution, and the problem was happening on multiple systems (Suse and Gentoo), and it was an unusual BIOS setting causing the problem, then can this bug be marked as closed? It doesn't look as though there's anything that can be changed in the software to fix this problem, so let me know and we can close this off (possibly as a CANTFIX). Thanks... 5:)
Well you can close it if linux shouldnt support NX? Maybe that should go to linux bugtracker instead then? But i think it has nothing to do with gentoo anymore.
