Bug 88952 – at the boot: prompt when trying to use the optional kernels gentoo-em64t-* they are not being found, but they are on the cd

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Timo 2005-04-13 05:13:43 UTC]

I tried this with gentoo/releases/amd64/2005.0/installcd/install-amd64-universal-2005.0.iso and a friend of mine also tried the minimal.iso where it fails also.

Maybe there went something wrong while compiling the iso or some isolinux issue I would assume.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-04-13 06:03:54 UTC]

ISOLINUX won't let you use a dash in the kernel name.

[Comment 2 Timo 2005-04-13 06:19:05 UTC]

but gentoo-nofb works, an there is a dash in it. isolinux was only a guess from me.

[Comment 3 Herbie Hopkins (RETIRED) 2005-04-13 06:46:16 UTC]

gentoo-nofb is an alias not a seperate kernel image which is why that works. Didn't Kugelfang rebuild the amd64 livecd due to this issue already?

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-04-13 07:16:57 UTC]

rebuild != redistribute on the mirrors

As I understood it, the new CD was still in testing.

The problem is that ISOLINUX uses the - to differentiate between different configurations, these are not 2 different kernels (gentoo and gentoo-nofb) at all, but rather the same kernel booted with different options on the kernel command line.

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-04-17 14:45:49 UTC]

*** Bug 89406 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Philippe Trottier (RETIRED) 2005-06-22 23:43:38 UTC]

For those how have the 2005.0 cd at boot prompt you can type this to get you going:

gentoo_em64t initrd=gentoo.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs
loop=/livecd.squashfs udev nodevfs cdroot vga=791 BOOT_IMAGE=gentoo
splash=silent,theme:livecd-2005.0

This will give you even the eye candy.

[Comment 7 Danny van Dyk (RETIRED) 2005-07-28 11:57:37 UTC]

This is fixed as of 2005.1. There will only be one kernel on the livecd :-)