Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

2017-08-17 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 08/17/2017 02:12 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: I know others have turned it off, should be a bios setting. I know this only of recent x86_64 based machines. I don't think this is possible on Itanium, but I might be wrong. Would be cool to get confirmation from someone w

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

2017-08-17 Thread Frank Scheiner
Mick and mad.scientist.at.large - thanks for your suggestions so far. On 08/17/2017 12:14 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: Last time i used it, Brasero didn't have an option to verify the just burned disk, you likely have a bad burn. The Brasero version as used by me has an optio

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

2017-08-17 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
17. Aug 2017 04:36 by frank.schei...@web.de: > Just a quick answer while I'm rechecking my burned CDROMs as per Mick's > suggestions. > > On 08/17/2017 12:29 PM, > mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com> wrote: >> you did turn uefi off in the bios didn't you? gentoo installer won't work >> with

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

2017-08-17 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 Aug 2017 12:36:38 Frank Scheiner wrote: > Just a quick answer while I'm rechecking my burned CDROMs as per Mick's > suggestions. Cleverer suggestion I just found in the interwebs: dd if=/dev/cdrom | head -c `stat --format=%s file.iso` | md5sum The above will read the ISO size in b

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

2017-08-17 Thread Frank Scheiner
Just a quick answer while I'm rechecking my burned CDROMs as per Mick's suggestions. On 08/17/2017 12:29 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: you did turn uefi off in the bios didn't you? gentoo installer won't work with uefi, though one hopes for a more specific error message in re

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

2017-08-17 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
17. Aug 2017 03:36 by frank.schei...@web.de: > Hi, > > I'm trying to boot my Itanium gear with the current minimal installer ISO [1] > on CDROM but so far had no success at all. I also tested the oldest of the > minimal installer ISOs [2] still available, also without success. For both my > rx

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

2017-08-17 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
I've also seen such behavior when i've burnt a cd image to a dvd.  also the installer may have trouble with your' particular hardware.  what burner are you using and how is it connected (i.e. mother boards sata/pata interfaces, external usb, etc.).  also what motherboard are you using?  Have you

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

2017-08-17 Thread Mick
Hi Frank, On Thursday 17 Aug 2017 11:36:41 Frank Scheiner wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to boot my Itanium gear with the current minimal installer > ISO [1] on CDROM but so far had no success at all. I also tested the > oldest of the minimal installer ISOs [2] still available, also without > succes

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

2017-08-17 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
17. Aug 2017 03:36 by frank.schei...@web.de: > Hi, > > I'm trying to boot my Itanium gear with the current minimal installer ISO [1] > on CDROM but so far had no success at all. I also tested the oldest of the > minimal installer ISOs [2] still available, also without success. For both my > rx

[gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

2017-08-17 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi, I'm trying to boot my Itanium gear with the current minimal installer ISO [1] on CDROM but so far had no success at all. I also tested the oldest of the minimal installer ISOs [2] still available, also without success. For both my rx4640 and rx2660 I get the following output when trying t