Theres a experimental livecd at www.gentoo.org/~livewire. I had a bp6 but cant remember bios options. try to turn off apic and acpi in the bios, also try switching mp 1.1 > 1.4 or vice-versa The only thing i remember about my bp6 was how finicky it was.
On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:38 am, M. Robert Martin wrote: > I've got our main Samba server down for migration from FreeBSD to Gentoo > and I'm getting weirdities :( > > Most recently, with a freshly-burned 1.4rc3 livecd, gets just past the > keymap selection to the line that says "---- Mounting the CD" and hangs. > I've booted another computer off the same CD and it gets past that point. > The motherboard is an Abit BP6 (not overclocked or anything), with a nice > IDE drive on the Hightpoint controller and a fairly generic CD drive. > > This machine boots a 1.4rc2 livecd just fine. Unfortunately, "emerge > portage" doesn't seem to work on 1.4rc2 any more. When you get to the > emerge sync emerge portage step of the install (there's the CONFIG_PROTECT > and USE exports first) it gets to a certain point and then deletes its own > emerge binary. Doesn't help to skip the emerge portage and bootstrap from > stage 1; the same thing happens in the bootstrap process. I don't know > what happens if you skip the emerge portage and go to stage three; I might > have to try that if I can't get the rc3 disk to boot. > > Anyone else see these oddities? Did you find a workaround, or recognize > where my error is? > > TIA, > > Rob > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
