[Sussex] Gentoo headaches!!!

[Stephen Williams]

Dominic,


On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 13:07 +0100, Dominic Clay wrote:
> 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 guess a dual-boot setup is out of the question?

> 
> 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????
> 

Not sure if this is any help:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_VMware_in_Windows_NT/2K/XP

or you could try installing gentoo from Knoppix if you can boot a
Knoppix CD-rom:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap3

Regards,
Steve.




> 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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