When I boot the Gentoo install disk on my desktop system with an old NCR SCSI controller, it hangs my machine. I suggest not loading the modules without prior confirmation. Also, my network card is not auto-detected. I changed the mainboard and my old 3com card does not work with the new board, so I put in my old tulip card. lspci on the boot CD says: Class 0200: 1011:0009 (rev 22) Do not load the tulip driver for this card, it is b0rken. Use de4x5 instead.
Turns out that none of the SCSI modules will work for this controller on this mainboard. Windows won't recognize it either. Nonetheless, loading any of the 3 possible driver modules crashes the PC hard. So, my initial suggestion stands: ask for confirmation before loading driver modules.
have you tried the 1.4_rc1 livecd?
Hi Felix, Please try our "2002122300" livecd from http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/experimental/ You can disable scsi probing by typing "gentoo noscsi" at boot, and network probing with the "nonet" option. Let us know your results (we're using a 2.4.20-derivative kernel)
boot options fix
... is this bug still relevant / occuring?
I have no idea, I don't have that SCSI controller any more.
Resolving bug.
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
