Bug 141324 – Live CD hangs after entering "gentoo"

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Jorge Gomes Raimundo 2006-07-21 12:11:02 UTC]

Hi!!!

I've tryed to install Gentoo using the live CD, but after booting with the CD and choosing "gentoo", then the screen remains blank and nothing happens.
If I chose "gentoo nox" I get the same behaviour.

I have an Acer 1694 WLMi with 1 Gb RAM, ATI Radeon X700 128 Mb PCIE, Pentium M 2.0...

Don't know what else to say to help...

Thanks :)

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-07-21 12:13:30 UTC]

Which CD are you using, exactly?

[Comment 2 Jorge Gomes Raimundo 2006-07-21 13:14:39 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Which CD are you using, exactly?

I downloaded it from the link bellow:
http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/releases/x86/current/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso

[Comment 3 Jorge Gomes Raimundo 2006-07-21 13:45:43 UTC]

When booting with the "gentoo-nofb" (I press Alt+F1 to try to select another keyboard), it says:

Loading gentoo..........................
Loading gentoo.igz.............................
Ready.
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.

[dead]
Nothing more happens and those messages stay in the screen with a blinking cursor...

[Comment 4 Jorge Gomes Raimundo 2006-07-21 16:16:48 UTC]

After several attempts, I finally discovered what was missing. The "noapic" was the trick.

Sorry to have bothered you guys with this.

You can close this one...

Thanks :)

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-07-24 06:32:32 UTC]

Cool, thanks...