Ah... the Asus A7V... :) I've had it too, I needed to turn off as many
options as possible to get the livecd to boot: noscsi; nodhcp; nousb;
no-what-have-you (don't have a cd here to check what the options are).
If all else fails, you may also want to reset the bios to factory
settings to make sure the board responds well to the probing.
I've gotten it to work properly, so it is possible!
Good luck!
Vincent
Ben Kennedy wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I am new to Gentoo, and looking forward to all that it will offer, after
> having run various RedHat boxes over the last couple of years.
>
> I've eagerly performed a fresh install on one of my old machines, but am
> having no luck getting the thing to boot. I've followed the x86 install
> doc from the web site, so I'm pretty sure all my steps are correct. I
> suspect there is some hardware issue, but I don't know.
>
> The system will boot the kernel partway before crapping out with a kernel
> panic ("Attempted to kill init!").
>
> If I boot with no paramaters, the last thing it prints before death is
> "USB Mass Storage support registered. ---- Detected usb-storage
> hardware". (This is interesting, because there is no USB hardware
> attached, but maybe that's really just part of the base USB detection?)
>
> Suspecting something wack with the USB, I've then tried booting with the
> "nousb" paramater at the lilo prompt. This time obviously the usb stuff
> is skipped, but the kernel panic happens just the same; the last line
> before failure is "---- Scanning for sim710...sim710: No NCR53C710
> adapter found."
>
> I've tried this both with gentoo-sources and gs-sources, and the result
> is the same.
>
> Hardware: ASUS a7v (a7pro?) board, 64 mb ram, ATI expert99 rage128 AGP.
> I do have two identical DLink 10/100 ethernet cards installed at the
> moment, but at least the one I connected to net was working fine.
> Obviously, the liveCD boots up fine since that's how I did the install to
> begin with.
>
> Any suggests?
>
> -ben
>
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