Riddler Posted August 5, 2003 Report Share Posted August 5, 2003 I need some help installing Gentoo from stage 1. When loading the bootstrap it seems to download fine and begin to unload but when I came back to my pc the monitor would not recieve a signal, thus I have no idea if it is finished and can restart my computer. Please help me!!! I have a Gateway VX900 19" monitor and a 64MB Nvidia Gforce2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 5, 2003 Report Share Posted August 5, 2003 did you press the space bar? during the gentoo install my monitor would turn off and i'd have to press the space bar (moving the mouse won't help since there is no mouse functionality) to bring it out of energy saver mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riddler Posted August 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2003 yeah I tried that several times also turned off and then on the monitor and still nothing Tried another monitor and replicated the dilemna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 5, 2003 Report Share Posted August 5, 2003 must be the ACPI or APM on your mobo...i think. i would turn that off in the BIOS before going through the install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riddler Posted August 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2003 Is there any way to salvage the install from where I'm at??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riddler Posted August 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2003 Also it would come out of sleep mode until this point. No way of knowing what point it is I was out on a job though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 5, 2003 Report Share Posted August 5, 2003 just boot back up with the disk, remount the partitions, and issue the bootstrap command. if you are having probems, tho, i would just go ahead and start from stage 3. you really won't notice a difference in the end, and it will save an @$$load of time. starting from stage 1 really just means you'll be staring at a screen full of compile messages for the next few hou....days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riddler Posted August 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2003 spoke with ezroller against my better judgement restarted the install. Anyway see yall in 4 hours :( Also neither he nor I could find in the bios where to turn off energy saver. Which means if I don't stay on the ball then we might repliicate the problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riddler Posted August 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2003 just to keep everyone posted I rebooted again and loaded the acpi kernel maybe this will work "fingers crossed" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 spoke with ezroller against my better judgement restarted the install. Anyway see yall in 4 hours :( Also neither he nor I could find in the bios where to turn off energy saver. Which means if I don't stay on the ball then we might repliicate the problem against your better judgement? S.O.B. no free help for you. its gonna cost you a cigarette per question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 if that doesn't work try booting with noapic parameter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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