gentoo install problems

while attempting to install gentoo minimal i came to a problem.

It boots and scan for hardware and everything then it ask me to select my keyboard. I select the default due to it us keyboard.

this is what comes across the screen.

makes the tmpfs for /newroot
attempts to mount media /dev/hda1 /hda2 /hda5 /dev/hdc
media found on /dev/hdc
Determining root device
determining looptype
mounting spuashfs filesystem
copying read-write image content to tmpfs
Killed
Killed

then it just blan at the line flashing curser. What the killed killed part mean?

[Prometheum]

It means that the CD isn't booting. This is a Very Bad Thing and should not happen due to any fault of your own. Are you sure the disc isn't munged up somehow? Also, are you using the latest stable release, 2008.0, or one of the 2008.0 betas?

Originally Posted by Prometheum

It means that the CD isn't booting. This is a Very Bad Thing and should not happen due to any fault of your own. Are you sure the disc isn't munged up somehow? Also, are you using the latest stable release, 2008.0, or one of the 2008.0 betas?

you mean scratched up? i suppose it could be and i can reburn it. I using the 2008.0 stable minimal install disc.

[Prometheum]

Originally Posted by ThunderChicken

you mean scratched up? i suppose it could be and i can reburn it. I using the 2008.0 stable minimal install disc.

Try running an integrity check on the disk. You should always check the disk if you have liveCD boot issues.

Originally Posted by Prometheum

Try running an integrity check on the disk. You should always check the disk if you have liveCD boot issues.

Thought i had nero set to check for disk errors after it was done i have to check. Anyway how would i check a disc for errors after it already been burned?

[Prometheum]

Ah. Does the Gentoo CD not have that as a boot option?

You might want to try reburning it, and if that fails then look on the bug tracker or forum and see if anyone else has the same issue.

I rulled out the cd. I left in my laptop cd drive and it booted itself up, (I walked away) it went through everything and said livecd#root: prompt. I starting to think the computer i using just doesn't like linux. I tried ubuntu it locks up. I tried gentoo and it does this.

[Prometheum]

Originally Posted by ThunderChicken

I rulled out the cd. I left in my laptop cd drive and it booted itself up, (I walked away) it went through everything and said livecd#root: prompt. I starting to think the computer i using just doesn't like linux. I tried ubuntu it locks up. I tried gentoo and it does this.

Computers aren't magic. See my post in the Debian thread for more ranting about that.

However, if Ubuntu locked up, and Gentoo failed copying the content of the LiveCD into a ramdisk, then maybe your RAM is bad. Run the Memtest86+ boot option off of the Gentoo live CD to check for this. You should let it go at least one or two passes, depending on how much RAM you have it might take a while.

Originally Posted by Prometheum

Computers aren't magic. See my post in the Debian thread for more ranting about that.

However, if Ubuntu locked up, and Gentoo failed copying the content of the LiveCD into a ramdisk, then maybe your RAM is bad. Run the Memtest86+ boot option off of the Gentoo live CD to check for this. You should let it go at least one or two passes, depending on how much RAM you have it might take a while.

Well i ran it and no errors so far, It was on test 6 when i last looked. Every time i let it go before i would go back and computer would be asleep. lol