I have recently downloaded the gentoo-grp-athlon-mp-1.4_rc2.iso image. I have burnt three copies of the iso, mounted the original via loopback, via all three cd's, and the directory tree seems to be just perfect. I would believe that when the iso was cut, the -b <boot> and -c <map> options were accidentally not passed to mkisofs. I will probably just drop the vanilla iso and try it, and do a stage one build. I am very anxious to get involved with gentoo, having been a mandrake, redhat, and suse customer, and after many years in linux wanting to be a happy cow now i have the chance. I built an system via linuxfromscratch, but of course it is silly for me to replicate the package mgmt and many other functions of a flexible distro...i like gentoo very much, in concept... -tom
Those options were passed when creating the CD. Have you tried any other 1.4_rc2 CDs? I'm guessing you'd have the same problem. Also, you have not included a specific description of what happens when you try to boot the CD. Include all the gory (or not-so-gory) details, please.
Sorry for the brief bug submittal. My wife was prodding me out the door for a get-together with the neighbors. I just returned and am thoroughly impressed to have rec'd your response...thanks! In any case, here are the details. When I try and boot off the cd, it just bypasses the drive and moves on to the current lilo on /dev/hda for my existing installs. It never even tries to boot the cd. To make sure i wasn't going crazy, I re-checked the bios setting for boot sequence, and then tried 2 different bootable cd's in the same cd-rom and they both booted, pre-empting the existing lilo, as expected. I burnt 3 different presses of the cd, and none will initiate a boot at all. There are saddly no details, gory or otherwise. Here is a basic break down of the hardware: Home brew machine formed of a 1) Tyan S2466 Tiger w/ 2 AMD 1800+ Athlon MP's 2) Phoenix Bios upgraded to 1.1 version (latest) 3) single 512meg ecc 2100 DDR memory module 4) Radeon 7500 w/ 64 meg 5) 2 x Ibm 80 gig ide hard drives 6) ACER (generic-mmc w/ burnfree) cdrw 7) some hokey dvd player from best buy (but works fine ) I tried burning the image using cdrdao version 1.1.7 w/ the follogin cmd line: cdrdao write --device 0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc ~/gentoo.toc where the TOC file contained: CD_ROM // Track 1 TRACK MODE1 NO COPY DATAFILE "/mnt/lfs/usr/src/gentoo-grp-athlon-mp-1.4_rc2.iso" and also w/ cdrecord version 1.11a32 w/ the options: ??? (out of my bash history buffer...sorry) but they were probably w/ settings something like: cdrecord dev=0,0,0 driveropts=burnfree speed=12 -data <pathto.iso> I will test a different iso and post the results... and again, thanks for the quick response! -tom
You're welcome. That's odd... and it sounds like a potential isolinux issue. Or an issue with your BIOS. The gentoo-specific code doesn't start running until the kernel starts booting, which didn't happen for you.
I AM THE BUG! I burnt the x86 basic iso image, and of course it booted fine. I've burnt bootables too many times and never had problems. I should have started w/ something much too simple to admit, the md5 checksum! I took for granted the file had come down completely and fully. Of course, it had not. Sorry for the inconvenience. On the flipside, I am impressed to see the dedication you bring to the project. I am a professional developer, mainly in the insurance and investment banking arena doing c++ on solaris, as well as a host of perl (and python though not for clients). It was the latest mandrake 9.0 that comes w/ perl compiled w/ threading and multiplicity enabled that convinced me that i needed to leave the canned distro approach. I have several c/c++ libs that I have extended via perl XS that don't play w/ the changed includes of a threading, non-stable perl. As a 5 year linux user, i thought it was time i took over. Do you need more people involved ...? How can i contribute??? -tom
