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Reading all physical volumes
Name: Dr. Nick Date: August 2, 2005 at 23:45:49 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro SP2 CPU/Ram: P4 2.0Ghz / 1024MB
Comment:
I'm trying to install Gentoo on an older system with a 10GB drive I know is good.
I'm booting to the CD and it gets to the point where it is "Reading all physical volumes". Here it sits for about a minute at which time the cursor stops blinking and it hangs indefinitely.
I've tried erasing the MBR of the drive and have double checked all the cables and jumpers.
Name: crc294 Date: August 3, 2005 at 08:52:39 Pacific
Reply:
Have you tried any other distros? It might either be the installation CD or a problem with the distro itself. You might want to try another version of Gentoo or even another distro to see if that helps. If you are still having similar problems it might be the computer.
Hope that helps Rob
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Response Number 2
Name: Dr. Nick Date: August 3, 2005 at 10:04:28 Pacific
Reply:
I've been reading that Slackware is good for older hardware so I thought that I'd give that a shot.
Thanks.
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Response Number 3
Name: Dr. Nick Date: August 3, 2005 at 15:16:12 Pacific
Reply:
The solution for posterity:
It appears that my older system (an IBM Aptiva 2176 166MHz) doesn't care for DMA. The Gentoo CD boots just fine if you pass the nodma parameter to the kernel like so:
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