Sabayon Live DvD (hangs?)

[Crimin]

I've been trying to install Sabayon 3.3 on my laptop (would the 3.4 Loop2 be better now?)
I decided to move from Fiesty because of frustration of trying to get the live cd to launch properly (and soon after the actual desktop)

My issue with Sabayon is that once it gets to a point in the live dvd initalization, before I get to the desktop, the console is flooded with messages similar (if not the same) :

[ 106.332296] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1937061
[ 106.332370] SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x3b17ab

(copied from
http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7496)

The screen just becomes flooded with those lines of text.
I saw the idea of using cheat codes, but I believed those caused later issues when trying to use sound (what I picked up from my time at ubuntu)

My laptop is a Compaq Presario V6000z (beginnning to wonder if that could be the issue itself)

The V6000z uses the Nvidia 6150 Go (128 allocated integrated video ram) could that be the issue as it seems to be referenceing to memory.

[WarraWarra]

3.4 the final should be out by say mid june 2007 might be worth the wait as current 3.4 is still beta but working very nicely.

3.3 :
Is the text floading the screen a problem or are you typing / pushing buttons to achieve this or it comes by itself ? Does this stay there 2min's later ? NO kde or desktop after 2 min's ?

Save mode working or not ?

Did you try to pass options from the help menu on the cd maybe try to disable acpi and or set screen to 1024x7??

You first need to get into some for of working sabayon and once inside you can fix anything.

This is a hands on distro so you will break it and fix it many times that is part of the fun.

Problem could also be:
It could be the nvidia driver generic or actual nvidia driver causing the problems but should not be.

Are you in any way possible to get into terminal / console / text mode as then you might be able to modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf using say nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf .

Also have you tried save mode on the cd / dvd

Text like that looks like "dmesg"

PS>
Don't worry about cheat codes that breaks rpm distro's or ubuntu , there is only 2 distro's on planet earth 1.Sabayon (gentoo) and 2.Pclinux (rpm).

Ubuntu = Mark Shuttleworth from South Africa, Durbanville Cape Town, 2nd space tourist, he made Verisign and ends up playing with Ubuntu LOL what went wrong LMAO. Reinventing the wheel LOL and he is as poor as Jenifer Lopez LOL.

Imagine if we send LX into space , he would come back and reinvent quantum physics and time travel LOL
and actually make it work while showing Newton and Einstein how clueless and backwards they where LMAO

Never mind me I have a redneck hillbilly or South African sense of humor LOL.

[mdmarmer]

Are you using 32 or 64 bit ?
Make sure you have burned at a slow speed and md5sum is correct
Cheat codes to try
noapic nolapic
(or maybe just noapic)
acpi=off

Mike

[Crimin]

It is 32 bit

However I do believe it is just the disc because I tried installing on my desktop and resulted in a spam of

Buffer I/O erros

and

end_request I/O errors

however while typing this it has now changed to

runaway loop module errors

I did get passed these on my laptop...after about 2 hours.
It then started spamming programs launching (thought I was saved) then it started saying the clock wouldn't load/configure and then further down it went to saying this failed (pulling this from memory, but one was gdm). Ultimately it went to..power something and displayed the username/pass for what I thought was going to be the username and pass for the xserver but it seemed to hang there.

I left for a bit and came back to be greeted by a command prompt that only could acess disc functions (probably where I was supposed to do something of the sort of fixing, but I thought I had a cheat code that would work and so I restarted it).

I am starting to lean to the disc though...because now my writer keeps failing on the second disc

I'm fine with this being hands on (I've been on and off with linux since FC4 through 6, then Edgy, and now to here) my motivation is to prove to my buddy that beryl stomps his aero interface (he doesn't have much faith in open source environments) I told him I had it working once, and that even fueled his claim even more seeing how I was having issues

Thanks for giving my claim attention

[Crimin]

safe mode has same errors

edit:
all suggested codes have the same outcome as well

[WarraWarra]

Another option that might work if the dvd side of burning or reading is nasty / unhappy = the 3.3 mini edition about cd size and looks like there is plenty sources for the torrent.


Torrent
http://www.linuxtracker.org/browse.php?cat=390

Http / ftp download
http://www.sabayonlinux.org/mod/mirrors/

This way you don't need to install all the dvd software and you can customize it as you would have done either way , but is good enought to get the job done.

Think it installs into max 3gb space unlike dvd that goes to 11gb or close to this numbers.

Hope this helps.

[Crimin]

lol funny that you mention that, I was downloading the mini version since earlier today (left it running while I left for school). I'll write that out and give it a try.

[VirtualEntity]

Dude---
I think you've got either a bad CD/DVD drive (bad cache buffer on the drive) or possibly your hard disk is failing. I'd start there as that is what I think those messages mean--essentially your system is having trouble reading/writing disk media, e.g. stuff read into the buffer of one of your drives is getting messed up.

Good luck--post again if you need more help!

[Crimin]

It is probably the disk (I'm beginning to wonder if the hosted file has become corrupted?) My logic is that a friend is also suffering from this, and similar things seem to be occuring on the forum. I highly doubt it is my hard disk, considering as I said; I tried it on my desktop only to have the same result.

[WarraWarra]

I have both 3.3 mini cd and dvd as well as 3.4loop2b all 3 downloaded via torrent and after it completed I always use the " force re-check " to make sure it is 100% md5 version.

There was one stage that the 3.4 had 12mb bad and the md5 did not check out but that was 30% into the download. and it fixed itself.

FTP if it is busted you have to do a complete download again not just the broken pieces like with torrent.

Will check the torrents again to but it should fix itself if using Utorrent or Azureus.