Trouble booting live dvd/cd

[Uni]

Hello there, i havent seen any one had this kind of problem before, n im not a complete noob at linux, but does any one know how to fix this:

My live dvd version of sabayon 3.3 fails at the initializing the kernel screen, its just stuck at that screen and nothing happens, same thing with the 3.3 mini edition. (i have checked the md5sumz n everything is burned at the lowest speed possible)

I tried the cheat code nolapic noapic noapci but its still not working.

I have used ubuntu/debian/mepis, n many other distros, they all seemed to be fine and works well on a livecd/dvd.

I have a pretty old pc with nVDIA geforce 2/512mb ram at 133mhz (super slow )/celeron R 1.7 hrtz ...i wonder if that has anything to do with it. (it's able to load beryl on ubuntu tho)

Thanks in advance to anyone who may help!

[WarraWarra]

If you add the "lspci" to your next message someone might be able to give you a idea. Might get this using another linux distro cd.

Might try the generic / old hard drive boot option at boot. Also the one killing the boot screen / text mode showing --quiet or -verbose not sure about correct name.
Then if you can fidn where it stops you might be able to disable this ? and bypass it into the live cd / dvd.
Safe mode any good or not.
Also check the minimum specs for booting the cd / dvd as the celeron should be okay.

Hope this helps.

[Uni]

Thx for the quick reply warrawarra...lspci? i have no idea what that is haha
Alright the safe mode doesnt boot either.

I tried the mini distro in virtualbox, and it is also stuck at the booting screen. The booting screen is the one where it says "preparing live cd environment alt+1 verbose mod".

So i went in verbose mod, and it seems lk the problem with it is that it could not find a parameter to boot, and it couldnt find what it is suppose to boot. (it redownloaded several times, but none worked :(:()

so yea i got stuck at that screen.

I think my pc meets the minimum specs hehe:D

Ill try to upload a screenshot of it sumhow

Oh by the way...does any one know if it is a possiblity that nvidia geforce 2 needs to be tweaked in the bios?

Thx, Uni.

[WarraWarra]

Someone else had this as well that I replied too.

Have you checked for new firmware for your dvd /cd drive as it might fix something.
Several persons had problems with the actual cd/dvd drive becuase of this.
or use someonelses dvd drive or boot it on their pc to check what might be wrong.

Also could be that it can not fnd the actual chip that controls the ide /ata / hd / dvd drive to motherboard connection and this is blocking it or listing the incorrect drive as the cd /dvd.

Hardware:
Lastly take the hard drive cable if IDE /ata wide cable and plug it into the dvd drive and boot without a hard drive , the current cable might be bad or dying or the hard drive and dvd is on the same cable and some hard drives does not like this at all = slowly killing the hard drive with errors possibly ?

Check the jumpers before and afterwords to make sure they are correct.
Small plastic fuses / jumper at back of hard drive.

Some or all of this happened to me LOL

Will see if I can find that post and list it here .

"lspci" is list pci devices basically and can be done once inside a linux distro as root using the text / terminal screen . No x windows / kde needed for this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lspci

This will show lots of info about the hardware that can aslo block something.

Here is a link about the boot options and or video options that might help.

http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7496

If all else fails the 3.4 release should be out by 15 june 2007 so might be worth the wait as this fixes plenty bugs like this.

Hopes this helps in the mean time.

[Uni]

Thx for the heads up on 3.4...forgot all about that...my dvd drive is fine so i guess ill wait till 3.4 is out thx for all the info warrawarra! greatly appreciated your help