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Bug 16944

Summary: 1.4rc3 stage1 liveCD kernel hang
Product: Gentoo Release Media Reporter: Ron Palmer <ron.palmer3>
Component: EverythingAssignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status: RESOLVED LATER    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Ron Palmer 2003-03-06 00:56:00 UTC
Hardware is a Sager 8887 laptop with an internal 802.11b miniPCI card.

1.4rc3 liveCD will hang during kernel boot with an insmod error on 
orinoco_pci.  Adding nonet to boot options did not help.

1.4rc2 liveCD booted fine 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot with 1.4rc3 liveCD
2.
3.
Comment 1 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-03-06 22:50:45 UTC
ok, newest livecds have latest orinoco drivers, better detection (hopefully :) )
and more options to totally disable all auto detection so you can 
get booted