During the installation of the 1.4 rc3 LiveCD, the installation routine got hung up trying to "detect" the ncr73c8xx SCSI adapter. This wasn't just a timeout issue, I let it go for two hours without result. Note, this problem did not occur with the aic adapter on another box. I tried this three times (on the ncr box) without variation in the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use the 1.4_rc3 LiveCD on a box with an ncr73c8xx SCSI adapter 2. Boot from the CD. 3. Watch it hang at the detection phase (before you ever reach a boot prompt). Actual Results: Nothing. No progress toward a prompt on the installer. Expected Results: Continued on with the installation. Note, this particular box has run Debian (woody/sarge), Knoppix, Libranet 2.7, RedHat 5.2/6.0/6.1/7.0/7.3, Mandrake 7.2/8.0/8.1/9.0/9.1 and a few other Linux distributions. The box is known to be good, without mechanical problems. It has four PPro processors, and 768 MB ECC RAM, plus four SCSI drives (plus a SCSI CD Burner). Moreover, the LiveCD isn't bad, because I was able to install Gentoo on another box.
Some linux kernel modules, when loaded, will fry your system. Our new to-be-release livecd may fix this (likely will) -- reassigning to livewire.
yes, please test latest experimental. www.gentoo.org/~livewire/livecd-experimental-4-06-03.iso
Okay, I'm downloading now. Thanks for working on this.
That worked! First time, right out of the chute. I'm impressed. I don't know what you did, but it worked. I ran it twice just to be certain. Just out of curiosity, what did you do?
ive so many changes from -rc3 to current.. wouldnt know where to start :) glad it worked.
fixed with latest livecd
