On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 18:55:17 +0000, Philip Callan wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> Trying to install Gentoo 1.4 on my new machine, I got a DVD a little
> while back that had gentoo on it, so I decided to run the script and
> generate a CD.
>
> Now I boot, and get the nice gentoo screen for a bit, but regardless of
> what options I pass, I seem to go to the Gentoo screen that resembles
> bootsplash, but the bar does not progress, regardless of how long I
> leave it.
>
> My system drives are setup as such:
>
> Primary IDE: ASUS CRW5224A
> Primary IDE (slave): LG GSA-4040B DVDRW
>
> Secondary IDE: Maxtor 120G PATA Drive, divided 60G NTFS, and the other
> 60G free for linux (well, it was partitioned by MDK9.2 but hasnt had
> anything put to it)
>
> Third IDE (SATA1): Seagate 120G 80/40G split.
>
> I boot from Windows XP Pro located on the SATA drive.
>
> Complete system is:
>
> ASUS P4C800-E motherboard w/ P4 3.0C
> 2x512 Kingston DDR400
> Radeon 9700 Pro AIW (I realize that AIW support is still under work at
> gatos, and that drivers are available from ATI, so I'm not concerned
> about 3d accelleration or anything at this point, just getting Gentoo
> installed, as I dont mind the CLI)
> Audigy 1 Soundcard
>
> So, back to gentoo, even when using 'nofb' or 'smp' or 'smp-nofb' etc,
> it still hangs without any progress.
>
> Can anyone who happens to use this combination perhaps direct me towards
> the setting in BIOS, or the kernel parameter that I'm missing?
>
> Oh yeah, I also wanted to kick grub or lilo whichever gentoo uses onto
> the beginning of the PATA drive, so that when my machine boots and by
> default heads for the SATA drive, it only finds the Windows bootloader,
> but so when I press 'F8' for boot device selection, I can choose the
> Maxtor and lilo will then give me a windows/linux selection point.
>
> MDK9.2 allowed me to do this, so I believe gentoo can too.
>
> Thanks for any pointers that may help,
> Philip
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The first thing I'd do is getrid of teh boot splash and see what it's
saying (if anything, of course). Just hit f2 after the kernel
decompresses to see the normal boot-time stuff and not the pretty progress
bar and such.