On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 16:18 +0000, James wrote: > Rumen Yotov <rumen <at> qrypto.org> writes: > > > > > > I did some quick searches and couldn't find any ISOs for that disc, > > > Hi James, > > Did you tried passing some ON/OFF options when booting with > > install-minimal-2006.1 (i mean "gentoo acpi=off doscsi etc.) > > HTH.Rumen > > Hi Rumen, > > I used gentoo-nofb for the kernel option but no other > (removal) options. > > OK, I'll give it a whirl, using x86-minimal-2006.1.iso > > OK, looking at: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.1/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2 > > Do have you any specific suggestions? > > acpi=off > noload= ????????? > > noX > > ????? > > James Hi James, Quite no experience (no need) with kernel-boot options, but just some suggestions: acpi=off doapm (requires acpi=off) - IMHO optional hda=stroke (older BIOS hard-disk handling) ide=nodma (just to be safe when installing) noapic (caused problems on older HW) nodetect (skip any errors while detecting HW) - have to know all your HW check other noXXXX options, which only disable selected features nolapic scandelay scandelay=X (X seconds) All the options are in install disk root's dir in README.txt HTH.Rumen
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