Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Andrey Vul schrieb: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 07:29, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iain's diagnosis seems about right. I would start with a nice 2h memtest86+ test followed with a 1h cpuburn test. I believe you mean 2d memtest86+ unless computer has DDR9-9 RAM where 100 (full)

[gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread R C Mitchell
I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I decided to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation Using the handbook documentation for AMD64 I burned a basic installation CD, booted it up, and followed the instructions for installation on the spare drive.

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 11:36 +, R C Mitchell wrote: [SNIP] I emerged gentoo-sources, and it ran fine for about five minutes, and then (choosing the moment when I decided all was well to go and make a pot of tea, the system rebooted itself. I booted up the disk again and went through

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:29, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iain Buchanan schrieb: R C Mitchell wrote: I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I decided to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation ah, who says Ubuntu isn't good for

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:36 PM, R C Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I decided to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation Using the handbook documentation for AMD64 I burned a basic installation CD, booted it

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
R C Mitchell wrote: I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I decided to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation ah, who says Ubuntu isn't good for anything? Good to see you're trying a real distribution :) /flame Typically now you'd prove me wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Iain Buchanan schrieb: R C Mitchell wrote: I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I decided to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation ah, who says Ubuntu isn't good for anything? Good to see you're trying a real distribution :) /flame Typically

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread R C Mitchell
On Friday 28 November 2008 11:56:52 Iain Buchanan wrote: ah, who says Ubuntu isn't good for anything? Good to see you're trying a real distribution :) /flame Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore... Typically now you'd prove me wrong and say how you've been using dieHardLinux for

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread R C Mitchell
On Friday 28 November 2008 12:55:06 Andrea Momesso wrote: An easy way to find out if this is a gentoo related problem is to avoid using the livecd. You can easily chroot into the gentoo drive from your ubuntu installation and try to emerge gentoo-sources from there. Ok, I've done this.

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread R C Mitchell
On Friday 28 November 2008 12:29:23 Florian Philipp wrote: By the way: Can you post some parameters of your system (CPU, age, ...) and tell us, whether you use 64bit or 32bit versions of Ubuntu and Gentoo? I had the box built for me a year ago. Processor is ADM Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 Nov 2008, at 11:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: R C Mitchell wrote: I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I decided to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation ... I'm in complete denial over this blatant non-specific hardware fault ... IFIFY.

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
Stroller wrote: On 28 Nov 2008, at 11:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: R C Mitchell wrote: I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I decided to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation ... I'm in complete denial over this blatant non-specific hardware fault ...