Bug 42073 – LiveCD 2004.0-x86-20040204 will not boot on new Intel Motherboards

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Harris Landgarten 2004-02-18 14:26:35 UTC]

When trying to boot LiveCD 2004.0-x86-20040204 on recent intel mb the live CD fails to boot. It crashes after listing the sata HD and CD properly. The motherboard I have tried are:

Intel D865PERL
Intel D875PERL

Both fail at the same spot.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot LiveCD on this hardware
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Actual Results:  
Machine freezes and has to be powered down.

Expected Results:  
boot

not relevant

[Comment 1 Harris Landgarten 2004-02-22 17:49:04 UTC]

I did manage to boot the 2.6 kernel LiveCD for November. After installing Gentoo and Kernel 2.6.3-r1 on the machine the sata disk, which showed up as /dev/sda under the liveCD was not recognized on boot. After some investigation, it appears that the initrd is not detecting the sata disk because it doesn't ever load libata. I reconfigured the kernel so that ATA Disk support, SCSI Disk support, Serial ATA Support and the intel PIIX/ICH Sata driver were all compiled in. After that all runs as expected. I think you should see if the same problem could be effecting the new LiveCD.

[Comment 2 Jeff 2004-03-15 03:53:16 UTC]

I'm downloading the x86 image now but I know for a fact the i686 "LiveCD" is not bootable (yes I checked the MD5 sum). Regardless of the hardware you can't easily boot a non-boot CD.

[Comment 3 Jeff 2004-03-16 21:49:49 UTC]

I checked the x86 LiveCD and it is also a nonbootable CD unlike the 1.4 LiveCD which was bootable. Why release a "Live"CD if it is nonbootable... I guess that's a bug.

[Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2004-03-17 09:28:28 UTC]

What LiveCDs did you try exactly? For x86 architecture, the following two are marked as LiveCD in our documentation:

install-x86-minimal-2004.0.iso
install-x86-universal-2004.0.iso

Both have been extensively tested and work on most hardware. Of course, we cannot guarantee 100% functionality on all hardware.

The packages-* ISOs are not marked as LiveCD in our documentation. If you are referring to the livecd/ directory on the mirrors, then perhaps we should rewrite it to read "isos/" or something similar to avoid all confusion.

[Comment 5 Jeff 2004-03-21 21:29:43 UTC]

Well that makes a world of difference thanks.

...and changing the directory name would be a welcomed change.  

[Comment 6 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2004-03-24 18:55:08 UTC]

do do the 2004.0 bootable livecds fix your problem?

[Comment 7 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-05-11 22:27:32 UTC]

Closing due to no response