On the same machine as used for releases since Gentoo1.4, the current gentoo.minimal.2004.2.iso does NOT BOOT. What is different since Gentoo1.4, 2004.0 and 2004.1? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Put CD into drive 2. 3.
... but genoo.universal.2004.2.iso does it! But here ... fdisk /dev/hda ... results in "/dev/hda no such device"
Same issue here; the minimal CD for x86 (2004.2 release) doesn't boot. Others (2004.1, 2004.0 and 1.4) did (still do). System: AMD Athlon-XP 1800+, SiS 530-based motherboard; both CD-rom drives (Plextor PlexWriter 8/4/32 and Pioneer DVD) fail on this CD. ISO doublechecked (md5sum and gpg check) and doubleburned (one on CD-R, one on CD-RW). I have not tried to boot the CD on a different PC though (due to lack of PCs).
same here.. does not boot on a teac dv-516e dvd-rom drive. i am able to boot any other live cd (2004.1 or .0) or windows or whatever.. and the iso will boot on my notebook, but not on my p4-albatron px865.
Same for me too. I have an Athlon 2000+ system. It looks in the cd for something to boot, but then goes straight to grub on the hdd.
the problem with fdisk /dev/hda is filed under another bug, modprobe ide-disk it should work. i am also having the same problem as the rest the 2004.1 works and a universal amd64 2004.2 also works.
oh and thats the x86 2004.2 that does not boot for me
Could Chris Mathis be a bit more specific on "modprobe ide-disk it should work"? "modprobe ide-disk" is not meant literally, right? 'modprobe ide-*' did not help. "problem with fdisk /dev/hda is filed under another bug" -- which one?
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install-x86-minimal-2004.2.iso won't boot on one PC but it does on another. Working pc: bios: AMIBIOS K7S5A 12/15/2001 S cdrom: PHILIPS PCA402CDA Nonworking pc: bios: ASUS MEL-C ACPI BIOS Revision 1008.B cdrom: SONY CD-ROM CDU523 1 Placing the Philips CD-ROM drive (from the working PC) in the nonworking PC and trying to boot with it doesn't help.
Again, same here. 2004.1 minimal boots in the machine, 2004.2 minimal doesn't. The DVD+-RW drive it's booting from is a NEC ND-2510A (very recent), so from this and others comments, I think it's fair to assume this is an issue with some BIOSs. What disk emulation mode does the LiveCD use?
I had same issue NEC dual layer dvd-rw drive.
One thing noone's mentioned... what speed did you write the CD at? I'l try re-writing it at less that 52x (:P) this evening. It shouldn't make a difference though, and there's a certain lack of acknowledgement from the LiveCD team, but it's worth a try.
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Lack of acknowledgement? About what? You have a crappy BIOS? *grin* There isn't much I can do to fix this without your hardware to test. I am working on resolving the tons of bugs that have been submitted to me since 2004.2 was released.... and in case you're wondering, I *am* the LiveCD team, so have a bit of patience. Also, having to search through the tons of duplicate bug reports doesn't help, as it only slows down the process... *grin* I'm going to try to figure out what is wrong with the CD, and why it only seems to plague the minimal CD, and I will be reporting back here as time permits. I ask all of you to have some patience, and try the universal CD, as I have not heard any reports of it having troubles booting.
One workaround is the smart bootmanager floppy. It worked for me at least. 1. boot to smart bootmanager floppy 2. choose cdrom as boot option. This boots the cd in my system where it fails if I go directly to cd first. http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ If you have a windows box grab sbminst.exe and run it, it will gen the floppy It gives usage instructions when you run it without any flags, so I won't replicate. Hope this helps.
I can also confirm this. I have created two 2004.2 minimal livecd's, one using Windows burned at 16X, and one using Linux at 4X, both with identical results. Box 1: Shuttle SB62G2 with FB62S00H(17-NOV-2003) and with FB62S00L (14-MAY-2004) Phoenix BIOS. 2004.0 boots fine. 2004.2 will not boot in any test case. I have tried a relatively new 52X CD-RW, old 16X DVD, and very old 4X CDROM. All fail. Tried with both sets of BIOS. CPU is a P4 Prescott (with HT). Box 2: Tyan S1836 (circa 1999) with a DVD drive. Dual PIII. Boots 2004.2 fine. Box 3: Compaq laptop (1999) with laptop DVD drive. Pentium II. Boots 2004.2 fine. I'm confident it's a BIOS problem that 2004.2 is triggering.
Re: #14 Hey, no worries :) I've got to thank you for the excellent work. Universal is downloading, I'll report whether it works. What boot emulation type do the LiveCDs use? (if not none).
There's no boot emulation on the LiveCD.
I supect some BIOS do not support long filenames. I have re-built the minimal iso with iso9660 8.3 support only and with additional rock ridge support. This solved the problem for me.
(cpuzreport) CPU(s) Number of CPUs 2 (1 Physical) CPU#1 APIC ID = 0 CPU Name Intel Pentium 4 Code Name Northwood Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Family / Model / Stepping F 2 9 Extended Family / Model 0 0 Brand ID 9 Technology 0.13
(cpuzreport) CPU(s) Number of CPUs 2 (1 Physical) CPU#1 APIC ID = 0 CPU Name Intel Pentium 4 Code Name Northwood Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Family / Model / Stepping F 2 9 Extended Family / Model 0 0 Brand ID 9 Technology 0.13 µ Supported Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2 CPU Clock Speed 2793.7 MHz Clock multiplier x 14.0 Front Side Bus Frequency 199.5 MHz Bus Speed 798.2 MHz L1 Data Cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size L1 Trace Cache 12 Kµops, 8-way set associative L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size L2 Speed 2793.7 MHz (Full) L2 Location On Chip L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes L2 Bus Width 256 bits CPU#2 APIC ID = 1 CPU Name Intel Pentium 4 (logical unit) Mainboard and chipset Motherboard manufacturer MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD Motherboard model MS-6747, BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD BIOS revision 6.00 PG BIOS release date 07/16/2003 Chipset Intel i865P/PE/G/i848P rev. A2 Southbridge Intel 82801EB (ICH5) rev. 2 Sensor chip Winbond W83627THF FSB Select 800 MHz Performance Mode disabled AGP Status enabled, rev. 3.0 AGP Data Transfert Rate 8x AGP Side Band Addressing supported, enabled AGP Aperture Size 128 MBytes Memory DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM DRAM Size 512 MBytes DRAM Frequency 199.5 MHz FSB:DRAM 1:1 CAS# Latency 3.0 clocks RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks RAS# Precharge 3 clocks Cycle Time (TRAS) 8 clocks # of memory modules 2 Module 0 Siemens AG DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 256 MBytes Module 1 Siemens AG DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 256 MBytes Software Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Workstation Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Same problem here. minimal cd doesn't boot. I've an asus A7N8X-delux revision 2.0, latest bios. drive is a Liteon 811S. Every ISO boot but this one: older gentoos, windowsxp of course, skyos, freebsd, whatever i tried, just minimal cd of 2004.2 doesn't boot.
Can you guys test out the CD at http://dev.gentoo.org/~wolf31o2/releng/install-x86-2004.2-r1-minimal.iso and report here if it boots properly. It was built from the same build directory as the official 2004.2 release. The only difference is I have dropped the 2.4 kernel completely, so there is only one kernel on the CD.
This image works for me
Yes, the recommended iso of comment #22 DOES boot now. The sad finding is, that -- as with 2004.2 universal -- 'fdisk /dev/hda' responds with 'Unable to open /dev/hda'
What kind of disk/chipset do you have?
... to #25 Seagate Barracuda 120GB S-ATA, Intel 82865G/PE/P 'fdisk /dev/hda' worked on this target with any previous version since Gentoo 1.4
SATA should be using the libsata driver interface. Your devices are /dev/sda and so on...
Wonderful. 'fdisk /dev/sda' ... Disk /dev/sda 65MB ... /dev/sda1 * 1 800 ... FAT16 This is my memory stick. Plugging out this stick 'fdisk /dev/sda' ... Unable to open /dev/sda Or must I do something to load libsata?
Nothing is needed to load the proper driver. Can you post the output from dmesg here? Actually... file a separate bug, since this bug is for the system booting, and we're off that topic now.
The original minimal-x86-2004.2.iso file did not boot due to "No Operating System found" on the CD, but the revision ISO file proposed by wolf in comment #22 works. ISO was burned onto CD with: CPU: PIII 533 MHZ. OS: Windows XP (SP2). Software: Nero Burning ROM 6.3.X. test machine: CPU: PIII 1 GHZ. CD Drive: Creative Labs 52x CD-ROM.
I downloaded universal on Aug 27 and it doesn't work on my old laptop. Haven't try on any other machines yet. Minimal didn't work, but I can't remember when I downloaded the iso image. I am downloading the image from the link on #22. If this image is reported working, why isn't it replace the original image? It would save time to everyone. The universal image also, needs to be fixed. On my old laptop, I'm not sure I can use the boot manager trick, since I never tested switching the diskette and CD-ROM drives live. So, hope the r1 image will work.
My English is bad, sorry... Image of comment 22 does boot now. I use `smp nodhcp noraid` boot parameters for P4HT2.8 CPU system with 1G RAM and SATA 120G HDD. But my onboard Broadcom 4400 10/100 Ethernet adapter does not work. Network card detect by Kudzu, modules b44 and Mii loaded. `#ifconfig eth0` say: eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found Where is truble? I boot from install-x86-minimal-2004.1.iso and install 2004.2 release. That is right?
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I have tried the 2004.2 minimal on five systems. The three Award BIOS systems fail to boot, while the two Phoenix BIOS systems (one of them quite old) boot fine. The 2004.2-1 minimal from #22 works fine on the Award system I'm installing on. I haven't had the chance to test it on the other two Award systems.
I really don't understand how this bug is still not solved now, over one month after it was originally posted, while people actually figured the problem out (more or less) and managed to build ISOs that DO work (to be read here and in this topic in the forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1529522#1529522). At least, there should be a note on the downloads page, because this problem concerns a huge lot of people, who are wasting cds for nothing... and it would be nice if a developer posted something about this to the forums, because a lot of people there don't look into bugzilla ;-)
This bug has *been* solved (see comment #22) the problem is feedback. I have received almost zero feedback on the new ISO, which means as far as I am concerned, it is still VERY untested. If you have used the ISO, then PLEASE COMMENT. I am getting sick of people whining and complaining, then doing nothing to help the problem. Especially when those same people then run around pointing blame on others. YOU ARE AS MUCH TO BLAME AS ANYONE FOR NOT HELPING. Did I make that clear enough? Good. Now, I am copying the ISO out to the /experimental directory on the Gentoo mirrors and once it has propogated, there will be an announcement on the front page of www.gentoo.org explaining the reason for the CD. As for the forums, a lot (most?) of the Gentoo developers never go there. I for one don't have the time to develop and browse the forums, as the signal to noise ratio is simply too high to waste time there.
Man, don't be so upset. I didn't want to BLAME anyone (in the sense of aggressing someone), this was just meant as a friendly and constructive post. As far as for the people "whining and complaining, then doing nothing to help the problem", I must tell you I HAVE Gentoo installed, thus, I wouldn't have the tiniest advantage of it if the minimal CD worked. In other words, it actually doesn't make ANY difference for me. I'm just so committed I thought I'd post something about it in the hope that something might happen (which worked, so I'm happy :-), because so many people in the forums keep complaining. I didn't know you couldn't bear a little criticism, I'm sorry. I must admit I actually didn't notice that there already was a half-way official "fixed cd" for this (to be precise, I noticed that "some guy" named Chris Gianelloni posted a link to a fixed ISO, but I didn't realise you were a dev... because there are many indepent people that actually have made working ISOs, at least in the forums). And neither did almost anybody, which is why you received so little feedback. That was one little post in this huge thread, and moreover most people never look in the bug tracker. So no wonder... Whatever... I'm thankful that you put it in the mirrors and posted about it in the news. That was more than I was hoping for :-) And to give you your feedback, I justed tested it and it works, whereas the original minimal 2004.2 doesn't work on my machine (ASUS A7N8X Deluxe, Award BIOS), so, it seems we're on the right way ;-) Cheers, Malte
With regards to complaining, the main issue(s) I had was that it took so long for a fix to what was a serious issue for a number of people (judging by the forum posts on it) to be annouced on the front page. Also, the description on the front page seems to point the blame at the users for having buggy BIOS's, which seems a bit strange given that I've *never* had this problem before with any other CDs (gentoo or otherwise)...
I feel moved to strongly support the opinions expressed in comments #37 and #38, in particular the issue concerning the side-wipe against buggy BIOS's. One could come to the conclusion that all Gentoo ISO's except the 2004.2-minimal were better in that they could handle even 'buggy BIOS's' as Award and (in my case) Phoenix.
Nobody is blaming the *user* but rather AWARD/Phoenix, since the only reports we have had of it not working have been from users with these BIOS chips. What is really strange is users with the same hardware having varying successes. I had a fix within a few days in this bug, however, I got very little testing or feedback from anyone, so I was not sure that it was fixing the problem, hence the reason for NOT posting it to the front page. I'm sorry that a bunch of forum users couldn't check bugzilla, since this is the official Gentoo location for any bugs and fixes, njot the forums. The forums are a forum for user-to-user interaction. While they can be used for bug fixing, they generally are not browsed by most developers, especially when we do have a proper bug tracking system. Now, with all that said, this horse has been beaten and is now a decaying mess. It is done and over with and continuing this conversation is not only pointless, but bordering on the edge of the asinine.
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I have an Award BIOS, and this fixed the issue for me. However the only reason I was dimly aware of it was from visiting the Gentoo IRC channel and noticing the topic referred to problems with booting a 2004.2 livecd. Given that this seems to be a very common problem, I'd suggest it'd save a lot of CDRs as well as time if there was any easy to find documentation about this. Such as: 1) A mention on the frontpage of Gentoo.org 2) A note in the installation handbook 3) etc As widespread as this bug seems to be, people should not have to dig around on forums, IRC, or much less bugzilla to find the answer.
It *was* on the front page. In fact, it still is.
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The topic of #gentoo pointed me here. I tried the URL in comment #22, but it's not there. I also noticed that it should be on the "front page" (www.gentoo.org?) but don't see anything. Where can I get the new iso to test?
Go to your local Gentoo mirror.. Look in /experimental/x86/livecd/x86
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The install-x86-2004.2-r1-minimal.iso image worked for me, too. The non-r1 version worked in computer A, but not computer B. I tried everything, including moving the CDrom drive from A to B, but I think the motherboard in B didn't like the CD. Version r1 works in both machines.
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.
