Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Hex Star
Hello, you probably have a recent chipset (blanking on name currently) which is recent such that support is not yet present in the linux kernel...

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Chuanwen Wu
The chipset is ICH8. So,is there anyway you see I can install gentoo on my machine? I have install Red Flag.But it 's i686 but not x86_64,so I can't chroot from the Red Flag to install Gentoo. 2007/10/7, Hex Star [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, you probably have a recent chipset (blanking on name

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi had the smae problem on a dell with this chipset. Its not so much the chipset, but that the dell has a gap in the numbering of devices attached to it that the livecd cant deal with. The cure was to boot from a redhat 7 livecd and install from that. Worked fine. Also, dell has a legacy mode

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
071007 Chuanwen Wu wrote: The chipset is ICH8. So,is there anyway you see I can install gentoo on my machine? You have an informed reply re your Dell, which I don't know, but more generally you could try to install from Knoppix -- that's what I used when I installed my current system 4 years

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Philip Webb schrieb: 071007 Chuanwen Wu wrote: The chipset is ICH8. So,is there anyway you see I can install gentoo on my machine? You have an informed reply re your Dell, which I don't know, but more generally you could try to install from Knoppix -- that's what I used when I installed my

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
071007 Florian Philipp wrote: Philip Webb schrieb: more generally you could try to install from Knoppix -- that's what I used when I installed my current system 4 years ago -- or the simple but powerful System Rescue ( http://www.sysresccd.org/ ), which I plan to use when I install Gentoo on

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/10/7, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi had the smae problem on a dell with this chipset. Its not so much the chipset, but that the dell has a gap in the numbering of devices attached to it that the livecd cant deal with. The cure was to boot from a redhat 7 livecd and install

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 20:07 +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote: 2007/10/7, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi had the smae problem on a dell with this chipset. Its not so much the chipset, but that the dell has a gap in the numbering of devices attached to it that the livecd cant deal with.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/10/7, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 20:07 +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote: 2007/10/7, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi had the smae problem on a dell with this chipset. Its not so much the chipset, but that the dell has a gap in the numbering of devices

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello William Kenworthy, Basicly, there still doesnt seem to be a compelling reason to go 64bit for a desktop at the moment. Doesn't that rather depend on your intended use of the desktop? Some apps benefit greatly fro the 64 bit environment. -- Neil Bothwick The best antiques are old

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 23:13:21 +0800 Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes - there are (were?) a few incompatibilities still with 64 bit os'es that dont exist with 32 bit. Basicly, there still doesnt seem to be a compelling reason to go 64bit for a desktop at the moment. Servers are a

[gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-06 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi guys! I can't boot my dell1400 laptop from livecd.Here is output: Making tmpfd for /newroot Attempting to mount media:- /dev/sda Attempting to mount media:- /dev/sda1 Attempting to mount media:- /dev/sda2 Attempting to mount media:- /dev/sda3 Attempting to mount media:- /dev/sda5