I get to a failed busy box when booting on anything less that a P3-600Mhz I've tried booting on a Celeron and a PII and both fail, however a P4 and an AMD XP 2000 work fine. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from 2004.2 Universal CD in either a Celeron or a PII Actual Results: ...usual boot messages ... >> Attempting to mount CD:- /newroot/dev/ide/cd/c0b1t0u0 >> Attempting to mount CD:- /newroot/dev/ide/cd/c0b1t0u0 This is where the busybox starts up and the booting stops. Expected Results: to boot into the LiveCD as per 2004.1 etc
Hi... would you care to be a little bit more forthcoming with the information? I have booted the CD personally on a Pentium 3 laptop, a Pentium 2 Dell machine, a Pentium 166 HP machine, and several higher-end machines. What kind of controller is that CDROM attached to? Those device names are *very* strange.
Hi, ok, the controller is the onboard controller on machines 1 - 3 below is listed as the following in the output of lspci: IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) The general spec of the machines are as follows: 1: Dell Optiplex G1 - PII fails to boot fully. 2: Gateway Solo PIII laptop that boots fine. 3: Custom built celeron 600Mhz that fails to boot fully. 4: Del Optiplex GX260 P4 is all ok. All of the machines are my test machines for installing Gentoo on. I have had no trouble with any of them booting the LiveCD's until the 2004.2 release :-(
Strange... 2 of my test boxes are Dell GX1 and GX110.
A dual p3 with via apollo pro 133a chipset (Abit VP6), and a p3 celeron, with intel 815 chipset (Abit SA6), Non will boot from the 2004.2 minimal live CD. Like there was no CD in the drive. In all machines the CD-Rom drives are secondary masters. The 2004.1 live cd works. this is one of them: 0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 I/O ports at d000 [size=16] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
install-x86-minimal-2004.2.iso Burnt is 5 times useing Nero burning rom and K3b... checked the md5sum iso and of the burnt cd.. all perfect.. the cd never boots. i have changed the bios setting also to boot from cdrom infact all boot device in bios are set on cdrom only. i got a cd burner and normal cd rom inserted the cd in both and tried to boot but it never booted my system configuration are as fallows Amd Duron 750Mhz 192Mb Ram 40gb hdd onboard Agp Samsung Cdrom Sony Cd Burner
What error are you getting when it isn't booting? I need specifics, otherwise I can't do anything about it.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58821 ***