When I try to boot the 2004.1 universal live cd on my compaq presario 700 notebook (AMD Mobile Duron), i get the boot prompt. but then after launching the CD (with the enter key) gentoo initializes and so does gentoo.igz...then i am brought to a black screen, which stays there permanently. i would have some idea of what is going on, except i see no error messages...just black. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert LiveCD 2. Reboot the computer 3. You are thrown into the boot prompt 4. type gentoo 5. hit enter Actual Results: gentoo and gentoo.igz initialized, then black screen no error messages Expected Results: brought me into the splash screen and then brought me into the live cd prompt
p.s. i have tried to boot this same live cd on another computer and it worked
sounds like your compaq doesn't like the bootsplash/framebuffer. can you try with: gentoo-nofb on bootprompt? roger55
tried...at least i see what is going on it stops booting with these two lines of text: PCI: Using configuration type 1 ACPI: IRQ10 SCI: Edge Set to Level Trigger then it halts. assumedly, this is the same problem.
try gentoo-nofb acpi=off
Did you try gentoo-nofb? I'm willing to bet that the native resolution of your LCD display is less than 1024x768, or it simply is not working with the frame buffer. If that is the case, you will have to start gentoo-nofb rather than gentoo.
acpi=off did the trick i didn't have to use the no frame buffer option thanks all
Excellent...
ok...well here we are 12 hours later. where do i tell gentoo (the built version on my HD) to boot (everytime i boot) w/o ACPI support. if it isn't off, i can't boot.
anyways... i fooled around for a bit i edited grub.conf so that the kernel booted w/ acpi=off and it booted fine.
Cool... I'm glad to see that you resolved it. In the future, don't reopen a bug when it is actually a different problem, rather file a new bug. The only reason is because a bug in the LiveCD goes to one group, whereas any other bugs go to other groups. Were you to post only the part about Gentoo, once installed, not booting on your hardware, it would have definitely not come to LiveCD. I'm mainly telling you this so that you don't file a bug in the future and wonder why you're getting no response... ;]
