Bug 31118

Summary:	Installation failed with error: CD not found ... but before gentoo there was RedHat installed !
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Martin Zahn <martin.zahn>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers <livecd>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Martin Zahn 2003-10-14 06:26:42 UTC

When I try to install gentoo linux on the (older) 386 machine I get the
error: mount: mounting /newroot/dev/cdroms/* on /newroot/mnt/cdrom filed:
No such file or directory
----- CD not found
......
......
......
#

I finally get e shell prompt.

On this machine, RedHat 8 and RedHat 9 was successfully installed,
no problemd with the CD-Rom.

Whats wrong with the installation / hardware ?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Place 1. gentoo CD in machine
2. Try to boot
3.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-12 07:56:40 UTC

Can you get me some hardware info for this box?

Comment 2 Martin Zahn 2003-11-13 00:27:11 UTC

Here are some Hardware Infos, actually RedHat 9 is installed ... without any
problems, therefore I think gentoo should working as well.
Redhat was also installed from CD, and the PC is not so old.

# uname -a

Linux argus.hsz.akadia.com 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

# uname -m

i686

# cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 5
model name      : Pentium II (Deschutes)
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 463.917
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr
bogomips        : 924.05

# cat /proc/meminfo

        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  526200832 512249856 13950976        0 104259584 186122240
Swap: 2089168896 301559808 1787609088
MemTotal:       513868 kB
MemFree:         13624 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:        101816 kB
Cached:         161936 kB
SwapCached:      19824 kB
Active:         380960 kB
ActiveAnon:     183692 kB
ActiveCache:    197268 kB
Inact_dirty:         0 kB
Inact_laundry:   80284 kB
Inact_clean:      4728 kB
Inact_target:    93192 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       513868 kB
LowFree:         13624 kB
SwapTotal:     2040204 kB
SwapFree:      1745712 kB

We think the "old" hardware should be good enough for gentoo.

Martin Zahn
Akadia AG
Information Technology
Arvenweg 4
CH-3604 Thun

Tel: +41 33 335 86 20
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http://www.akadia.com/
mailto: martin.zahn@akadia.com

Comment 3 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-05-11 21:49:42 UTC

It happens when you have two drives and and the second drive has a cd in it. Initrd and Busybox get confused about that. I'll close this bug now. Drop a comment please if this is still an issue.