gentoo-grp-i686-1.4_rc2.iso + Toshiba Satellite 3000-214 booting with no options: hangs at "aic..." detection hard lockup, no way for reset except pulling power plug :( booting with "noscsi" flag: hangs at "de4x5" detection the power switch is the only way to turn off booting with "no scsi" and no net detection (whatever that flags name was) boots ok to root prompt wait for next release, download, burn, try, repeat...
Interesting. The good thing is that the CD boots. I would like to get autodetection working better so that this doesn't happen. Leaving this bug open for now.
also a problem on toshiba satellite 1909 s303
gentoo-3stages-x86-1.4_rc3.iso dry run: hang at "Scanning for advansys..." boot with "noscsi": hang at "Scanning for de4x5..." boot with "noscsi nonet": run through to root prompt additional: -insmod 8139cp spills "init_module: No such device" several times why? according to dmesg 8139too loads fine (and my current setup runs fine with it, so it should work), but afterwards 8139cp is tried to load several times and fails -the boot screen with white text on that graphic is not practical on LCD -does the kernel provide a keypress for rebooting? testing this and always switch on/off of machine is unfunny, unfortunately there's no reset button, just the power button :( waiting for 1.4_final...
latest experimental livecds ahve better hw detection. The scsi load in initrd is hard to get around , but hopefully the rest of detection wont hang . experimentals are at www.gentoo.org/~livewire/
livecd-experimental-3-16-03.iso runs through to prompt without any options set -> good! the only hint to scsi is a line: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno=2 for the fun of it I reran it with acpi on and it too worked with no problems as the battery is readable I think of patching my current setup with acpi, too :)
Please test again with the latest LiveCD and reopen this bug if the problem persists.
