I have old PII-266 comp on Asus P4B board with 384 Mb RAM, on which I'm trying to install gentoo using minimal install CD. My hard drive is /dev/hda and CDROM is on /dev/hdd or /dev/hdc (tried both). Hardware, including CDROM is 8 years old. booting install CD, it reaches the stage Mounting squadshfs filesystem Copying read-write contents to /tmpfs at which it hangs indefinitely. I have tried several boot options 1) ide=nodma is a must for me, otherwise CDROM does not mount (but I get a shell !) 2) in addition, noapic, nolapic, nodetect, nosata, acpi=off were all tried, cannot be sure that in all combinations I have also tried 3) Moving CDROM from /dev/hdd to /dev/hdc 4) I have looked at this CD in this same CDROM drive from Windows 98, which is currently on my harddrive. I can list file contents and copy files just fine 5) I have tried 2006.0 minimal CD with the same results 6) I have burned different brands of CDRW disk, but, indeed, I have not tried CDR and 7) I have waited once overnight to see if I'm just impatient. However, I was not leaving the system overnight with every combination of boot flags :)
An 8 year old CD-ROM will likely have some trouble reading CD-RW media. Try a CD-R and reopen this bug if that still doesn't work.
(In reply to comment #1) > An 8 year old CD-ROM will likely have some trouble reading CD-RW media. Try a > CD-R and reopen this bug if that still doesn't work. > Yep, using CDR it worked all right. This was my next step before filing the bug, but I could not find any blank CDR's around :(
