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| "Paul" <paul.housley@btinternet.com> wrote in message news > I've downloaded gentoo 1.4 basic cd image. > > When I boot from the cd, it seems to be taking forever to start PCI and > USB hotplugging. > Does this indicate that something is wrong or can it take ages? Yes, it takes ages. But when installed and booting from the hard drive takes but a second. Styvaen. |
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| Paul wrote: > I've downloaded gentoo 1.4 basic cd image. > > When I boot from the cd, it seems to be taking forever to start PCI and > USB hotplugging. > Does this indicate that something is wrong or can it take ages? Live CD kernel has to probe to see what modules are needed. If you don't have usb or a laptop, I'd boot with nohotplug nousb on the command line to disable it. -- Registered Linux User # 286635 |