The setup has nothing fancy : IDE disk and IDE CD/DVD connected to a motherboard with a 32-bit AMD. /dev/hda is the hard disk.... If i remove the hard disk the system boots well, but, of course... it's a lot harder to install anything on the HD :) But at least it confirms that while looking for the cdrom, the boot cd hangs when considering the hard disk. At first i thought it was because the hard disk had no mbr and no partition table (it has been erased and tested). I've used a kubuntu cd i have here to partition the hard disk. But this doesn't change anything... I dont know which DVD i have, but it boots with the tasmanian logo that was present only in on linux kernel i think, and which is not very old. Reproducible: Always
I forgot to say that i've tried to boot with almost all no* options, and this does not solve the problem. I've tried with 'debug' too.. but the shell you got has no mkfs and no fdisk... so i can't find anything to try, and it hangs when i keep on booting. This computer has run a(nother) gentoo system for several years and i've never had any kind of problem this way.
Thomas please download and try the current Minimal Install CD; http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml
i've solved by problem by doing so * boot under kubuntu * mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 And now gentoo does not hang anymore (my burner is broken currently and i can't try the latest minimal cd). I guess the good way to reproduce is to erase partition table + start of each partition, using something like dd, 'badblocks -w -s -v' or similar.
As there's no recent comments here and no other bug reports about this, I assume this is now fixed. Feel free to reopen if you hit this issue.
ok. It's not like if i install gentoo every two weeks, but i'll check next time i do. ++
