Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LiveCD boot freeze on my P4P800 motherboard? [partly solved]

[Frans Meijer]

As far as I can tell, there are (at least) two differences between your 
setup and mine: one is the ethernet card and the other one is the Serial 
ATA disk in my system.
If I change the BIOS' IDE setting from "enhanced" to "compatible", which 
basically disables the Serial ATA interface, the LiveCD boots OK. I 
guess I have to build my own bootable Gentoo CD. Any pointers on this?
Thanks,
Frans Meijer.

PS Ever since I posted my question on this list, I get sent viruses 
wrapped in forged mails seemingly coming from Microsoft Support. A 
little silly to send Windows viruses to a Linux user list, hmm? Anybody 
else got this?
FM

Eelco den Heijer wrote:



ubject:
LiveCD boot freeze on my P4P800 motherboard?
From:
"Frans Meijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Mon, 8 Dec 2003 16:10:06 +0100 (CET)
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I'm trying to install Gentoo on my new MoBo: ASUS P4P800DeLuxe 
containing
an Intel 865PE chipset with SATA, RAID, GB Ethernet and what not. 
Problem
is that the LiveCD freezes during boot-up. The "even nicer" Gentoo
start-up screen (with the thermometer) shows up and stays there till
Eternity. The thermometer doesn't move one millimeter (I'm 
European (:-)
The box contains:
P4 2.6 MHz
1GB RAM
80GB IDE(boot disk), 120 GB SATA (2dary disk)
Radeon 9600Pro

The problem is in the IDE controller AFAIK. I've also tried the
experimental LiveCD with the 2.6.something kernel (from november 
20), to
no avail.
Now what? I'd love to see it working on something better than my 
old P3
box, because I'm deeply impressed with this distro, my utmost 
respect and
gratitude to all people involved in making this piece of technology.
Does anybody know how to fix this?

Hi Frans,

I bought the Asus ASUS P4P800 (no deluxe) mobo and used an older 
LiveCD (from August), since I was too lazy to download a new one. My 
specs:
Onboard 1 GB Ethernet, PCI Intel NIC (100MBit), 2,8GHz P4, 1GB Ram, 
old Matrox graphics card, 1 15GB disk, 1 60GB disk.

Everything went fine for me, and I *think* I have the same IDE controller
as you have.... I used my Intel NIC (100Mbit) instead of the onboard 
1Gbit
NIC (since the old one was still in the machine, and it was recognized
as 'eth0'). Maybe try it with a different
NIC?
I did have a problem last year with another PC, where everything
froze after 5 minutes; this had to do with the box getting too warm
and the processor locking up (after a few bios changes this was easily
fixed).

Hope this helps,
Eelco


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