Bug 13445 – Gentoo Install CD Fails To Boot

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Lawrence Stephens III 2003-01-07 15:37:02 UTC]

I'm trying to install Gentoo Linux on a PC i586 200 MHz machine with 128 MB 
RAM. I will get the Gentoo Linux splash screen and will begin to access the 
CD-ROM drive then I will 
receive this error message "isolinux: Disk error 80, AX = 42A2, drive 9F".

The iso cd that I've downloaded and burned is "Gentoo-grp-i586-1.4rc2.iso".

I hope this is enough info.

Thanks,

Larry

[Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-01-08 22:44:09 UTC]

Try booting this CD on another system. This sounds suspiciously like a bad burn...

[Comment 2 Lawrence Stephens III 2003-01-14 16:49:41 UTC]

I was able to boot the burned CD on another computer. The computer was able to 
boot Gentoo just fine. This was a 686 Intel 450 MHz box.

[Comment 3 Ed Vazquez 2003-01-15 13:31:45 UTC]

System:
Dell Precision 410, BIOS A14 (latest available)
Pentium II 400 MHz
SCSI _and_ IDE CD-ROM drives

On initial boot, the install process halts at:

"Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel."

Total system freeze, no keyboard, etc.  Hard power cycle needed.

ISO images tried thus far (MD5 before _and_ after burn)
in order:

gentoo-grp-i686-1.4_rc2.iso
gentoo-grp-i586-1.4_rc2.iso
gentoo-basic-x86-1.4_rc2.iso

[Comment 4 tycoon_rulez 2003-01-27 15:29:11 UTC]

I have experienced the same problem:

Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel.

and then the system had frozen. 
Then I disabled the APIC mode in the BIOS and it fixed the problem...
System : AMD Athlon 850 Mhz VIA KT333 chipset

[Comment 5 Lawrence Stephens III 2003-01-29 00:35:25 UTC]

I've tried Gentoo Version 1.2 and 1.1a. The results were the same. After the 
message
"Linux booting........" It will make several attempts to read from the CD-ROM and 
then the isolinux will will failed with the follwoing message : 
"isolinux: Disk error 80, AX = 42A2, drive 9F".

I am running AP5T R1.50 mainboard.

Larry

[Comment 6 Torgeir Hansen 2003-03-13 12:39:14 UTC]

I've also had the "Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel." followed by a full freeze on a IBM xSeries 305 (K343XEU) with the 1.4_rc3 cd.

However, a 1.4_rc1 cd worked just fine!
For hw-details, check out: http://www5.pc.ibm.com/no/products.nsf/$wwwPartNumLookup/_K343XEU?OpenDocument

[Comment 7 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-04-20 10:25:19 UTC]

gcc opts in livecd kernel caused this on many boxes, removed
from -rc4, please try and reopen if needed.

[Comment 8 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:25:02 UTC]

Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.