With both CDs the last lines on the screen are (from no FB boot) Brought up 4 CPUs NET: Registered protocol family 16 EISA bus registered ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: using MMCONFIG Setting up standard PCI resources ACPI:Interpreter enabled ACPI:(supports S0 S5) ACPI:Using IOAPIC rot interrupt routing ACPI:PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.booth off either CD 2. 3. Actual Results: Picking Gentoo boot option results in only a blank screen Picking Gentoo-noFb gives above lines Pick Help an the help screen only flashes by Expected Results: Gentoo heaven :) MB is Intel DG33TL
I forgot to say that these are the 2008.0 CDs
According to http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=115247&sid=66a1d601c816f27aba8e8b092a7da4f6, you may want to try booting with acpi=off
There's a ton of options that you can use. Aside from being available via the help (which I'm trying to fix) you can also just read the README.txt on the CD. Some options that you might want to try: acpi=off noapic nolapic You could even try nosmp to see if it is something SMP-related in the kernel.
(In reply to comment #2) > According to > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=115247&sid=66a1d601c816f27aba8e8b092a7da4f6, > you may want to try booting with acpi=off > Thanks Andrew, that's a great link.
(In reply to comment #3) Thank you Chris Turns out I wasn't using the "b" command in grub correctly. apci=off gets me through the freeze. O'course I now have a finding the CD problem but but I'll do my honework & search the forms instead of placing a report. Thanks for all your great work!
I think we can safely call this INVALID since it's not technically a problem with our media, and it can be gotten around with the standard kernel commandling parameters.
