[Sussex] Gentoo headaches!!!

[Dominic Clay]

Steve,

Unfortunately other distros do work.  I have had Debian and Damn Small Linux working without hitch.  The trouble is, I really want to go back to Gentoo and I only have this WinXP laptop and a copy of VMWare 4.

I did read somewhere that the Gentoo boot process might struggle with certain types of CD drive.  There wasn’t much detail, just a rumour monger really.  I don’t know if there is any truth in this and I don’t know if this would come in to play at this point in the boot..? I also cant find the page that I found that said this.

How can I get some more info out of the system if I cant get past this point?  I have tried going into the VMWare bios, but there is very little in the way of customisation functionality.

What _is_ the boot process doing at this '>> booting...' point anyway????

Cheers for your help,
Dominic


-----Original Message-----
From: sussex-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:sussex-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Stephen Williams
Sent: 11 July 2005 09:47
To: LUG email list for the Sussex Counties
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Gentoo headaches!!!


Dominic,

Now that the Gentoo advocate label has been firmly pinned to my chest, I guess I should comment. I've no experience with VMWare, so I can't help you much.  Have you tried other distros?

Might it be a VMWare problem rather than a Gentoo problem?

Steve W.


On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 09:14 +0100, Dominic Clay wrote:
> 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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