Bug 157008 – x86 2006.x Minimal CD install hangs on PII-266,

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Dmitri Pogosian 2006-12-03 10:38:50 UTC]

I have old PII-266 comp on Asus P4B board with 384 Mb RAM, on which I'm trying to install gentoo using minimal install CD. My hard drive is /dev/hda and CDROM is
on /dev/hdd or /dev/hdc (tried both). Hardware, including CDROM is 8 years old.

booting install CD, it reaches the stage

Mounting squadshfs filesystem
Copying read-write contents to /tmpfs

at which it hangs indefinitely. 


I have tried several boot options
1) ide=nodma is a must for me, otherwise CDROM does not mount
   (but I get a shell !)
2) in addition, noapic, nolapic, nodetect, nosata, acpi=off were all tried, cannot be sure that in all combinations

I have also tried
3) Moving CDROM from /dev/hdd to /dev/hdc
4) I have looked at this CD in this same CDROM drive from Windows 98, which is currently on my harddrive. I can list file contents and copy files just fine
5) I have tried 2006.0 minimal CD with the same results
6) I have burned different brands of CDRW disk, but, indeed, I have not tried CDR

and 

7) I have waited once overnight to see if I'm just impatient. However, I was not leaving the system overnight with every combination of boot flags :)

[Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2006-12-03 14:18:56 UTC]

An 8 year old CD-ROM will likely have some trouble reading CD-RW media. Try a CD-R and reopen this bug if that still doesn't work.

[Comment 2 Dmitri Pogosian 2006-12-06 15:45:03 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> An 8 year old CD-ROM will likely have some trouble reading CD-RW media. Try a
> CD-R and reopen this bug if that still doesn't work.
> 
Yep, using CDR it worked all right. This was my next step before filing the bug, but I could not find any blank CDR's around :(