[Sussex] Gentoo headaches!!!

[Dominic Clay]

Hi Chaps,

Im still trying to get my VMWare installation of Gentoo to work (to even boot from CD!!!).

I downloaded the ISO and set up a VM.  The system starts to boot from the ISO when I turn the VM on it seems to go ok until it gets to:

>> Scanning for Volume Groups...
   Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
   No Volume groups found
>> Activating Volume Groups...
   No Volume groups found

... Then it says it has found CD Medium on /newroot/dev/cdroms/cdrom0. It then asks for a keymapping and just after it gets to the keymap setting, it goes:

>> Determining root device...
>> Filling tmpfs...
>> Mounting squashfs filesystem...
>> Filling filesystem...
>> Booting...

...then there is a pause, which seems to have no end.  I have left it for 30 mins or so here just to be sure... and nothing!

Does anyone have any thoughts on something I could try?

Thanks in advance...
Dominic

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