13343 – Live CD & Base CD problem with ACER TravelMate 420

Bug 13343 - Live CD & Base CD problem with ACER TravelMate 420

Summary: Live CD & Base CD problem with ACER TravelMate 420

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Release Media
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Bob Johnson (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2003-01-05 23:51 UTC by thava prahash
Modified:	2003-02-05 21:43 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description thava prahash 2003-01-05 23:51:43 UTC

I have Acer Travelmate 420 laptop. Using the basic cd, the system hangs upon 
booting when checking for scsi devices. Overcome this with noscsi option. It 
then hangs while probing for network devices. It has eepro10 eth0. this is 
overcomed by nonet option. 
the system hangs on grub while probing for devices using bios. If the module 
is compiled using make bzlilo, the system loops at kmod error after reboot.

Cheers

Comment 1 Seth Chandler 2003-01-18 05:41:40 UTC

jeeeez, this sounds like a fscking mess... 
 
can you actualy get this thing to boot to a prompt or what? 
 
if you can, give me a dmesg...i'll see what i can do

Comment 2 thava prahash 2003-01-21 00:08:19 UTC

I retried Gentoo 1.4rc2 allover again and it worked this time without the 
previous problem. The difference that i see(if i'm not mistaken) was that that 
the earliar attempt resulted in kernel 2.4.20 and the current installation 
resulted in kernel 2.4.19.

Is there problems with kernel 2.4.20 that may have caused the earliar problem?

Thanks for all the assistance

Comment 3 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-02-05 21:43:27 UTC

actually it should have used a 2.4.19 kernel on each try