When I try to install gentoo linux on the (older) 386 machine I get the error: mount: mounting /newroot/dev/cdroms/* on /newroot/mnt/cdrom filed: No such file or directory ----- CD not found ...... ...... ...... # I finally get e shell prompt. On this machine, RedHat 8 and RedHat 9 was successfully installed, no problemd with the CD-Rom. Whats wrong with the installation / hardware ? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Place 1. gentoo CD in machine 2. Try to boot 3.
Can you get me some hardware info for this box?
Here are some Hardware Infos, actually RedHat 9 is installed ... without any problems, therefore I think gentoo should working as well. Redhat was also installed from CD, and the PC is not so old. # uname -a Linux argus.hsz.akadia.com 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # uname -m i686 # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 5 model name : Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 463.917 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr bogomips : 924.05 # cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 526200832 512249856 13950976 0 104259584 186122240 Swap: 2089168896 301559808 1787609088 MemTotal: 513868 kB MemFree: 13624 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 101816 kB Cached: 161936 kB SwapCached: 19824 kB Active: 380960 kB ActiveAnon: 183692 kB ActiveCache: 197268 kB Inact_dirty: 0 kB Inact_laundry: 80284 kB Inact_clean: 4728 kB Inact_target: 93192 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 513868 kB LowFree: 13624 kB SwapTotal: 2040204 kB SwapFree: 1745712 kB We think the "old" hardware should be good enough for gentoo. Martin Zahn Akadia AG Information Technology Arvenweg 4 CH-3604 Thun Tel: +41 33 335 86 20 Fax: +41 33 335 86 25 Mobile: +41 79 410 27 87 http://www.akadia.com/ mailto: martin.zahn@akadia.com
It happens when you have two drives and and the second drive has a cd in it. Initrd and Busybox get confused about that. I'll close this bug now. Drop a comment please if this is still an issue.
