Tried several times to install rc2 on second drive of system with rc1 on first (no problems with it!) Keep getting the following error : "mounting compressed loopback filesystem" "Using /modules/cloop.o" Then just a freeze of the system I've tried it with noscsi acpi=no and every other combo listed. Computer is a Abit AX7-333 (via chipset) Athlon XP1800 with 512 meg.
Hmmm. Not sure. Can you get the CD to boot on any other system? Maybe it's a bad burn (maybe not, but probably a good thing to check first)
Tried the same CD on another system. Booted and ran the setup just fine. This was on a PIII with a Via chipset.
Hmmmm..... I'm assigning this one to lu-zero to investigate.
Can you test it on different cd readers on the same machine?
Will do. I'll have to add another player from somewhere. Give me a day or two and I'll let you know the outcome.
Stuck a DVD into this system, booted with the same Live CD and got the following error: mount: Mounting /dev/cloop on /netroot/mnt/cloop failed: Invalid argument
Sorry to ask... could you try the DVD or the CD that seems to not work on the other system? Could you try livecd from other media?
Just to be clear, here is the steps I've taken. 1. Boot from CD. Got the following: "mounting compressed loopback filesystem" "Using /modules/cloop.o" Then just a freeze of the system 2. The same Live CD booted an Intel chipset PIII system OK 3. Added a DVD to first system and booted from it with the same Live CD, got the following error: "mount: Mounting /dev/cloop on /netroot/mnt/cloop failed: Invalid argument" 4. I just tried the experemential Live CD from ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/experimental/x86/livecd/ and also get an error about cloop I wonder if this could be a problem with the Via KT333 chipsets and the new isolinux? Because booting from the CD with either Gentoo 1.3 or 1.2 work on this system.
Seems that the KT333 isn't the faulty component. I can think just about problems with the cd readers, I got positive reports about the livecd from a KT333 user that didn't have any issue.
Looks like you are right about the CD reader being the problem. I found an OLD CDROM (quad speed !) that booted the LiveCD just fine. I wonder why the CDRW and DVD didn't work? Maybe setting the mode slower on the newer readers would allow them to work? If you need me to try anything else to troubleshoot this I'll be glad to help.
closing it then
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.
