GENTOO: live dvd! 2008.0 beta2 problem.

[Hitboxx]

Hi all,

I downloaded and burned the Gentoo-2008.0 beta2 i686 live dvd! from gentoo.org and upon booting, it isn't detecting my network card and isn't loading sound modules for my sound card which it detects perfectly. Rest is fine. How do I make it do both of these?

My hardware's is Core 2 Duo E6600@2.4, DG965RY Motherboard, Quadro FX 560 128mb, 2x80gb/1x320gb SATA, Frontech TV card
2x1GB/DDR2 RAM, Samsung Synchmaster 997DF 19", Creative Live 5.1 Sound, Realtek Ethernet Adapter

Strangely, the live cd! of the same, works like a charm and has no issues whatsoever.

I have checked the md5sum and everything is fine.

I have made a video of the booting here -> *www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8zwLc76bso

Help
Thanks.

 

[mehulved]

Give output of lspci. There's lots of different chipsets in Realtek Ethernet Adapter.

 

[abhinandh]

from the video somthing is seriously wrong with the kernel modules.they dont exist on cd or they are at wrong path.check the cd.

 

[praka123]

try checking /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ for modules available.
I had also faced this in some distros.when I try modprobe "thismodule",it says FATAL:thismodules doesnot exist,while it actually exists.weird behaviour.most of the times,going to runlevel 1(telinit 1) and return,resolves this problems though

why dont you use another distro as host?the one you have already on harddisk.fedora?

else systemrescuecd is good.it is gentoo only.make sure you compile a custom kernel.dont go for genkernel.(for adding drivers for newer hardware).
do a depmod -ae once kernel is compiled and all modules loaded.

 

[Hitboxx]

I tried the iso file of the dvd in the virtual mode using Qemu and it appeared to output the same messages of those missing modules here too. I guess they have done a half-baked half-assed compilation of the live dvd, which is a shame. The live cd worked so perfect.

@praka123, honestly I didn't understand a thing you said, I have never compiled a kernel in my life, and hopefully never will, so I know absolutely zero about that.

 

[praka123]

well,I had used livecd-2008beta1 and it installed perfectly.I dont think gentoo guys got wrong though
it is something with the newer h/w you got.

compiling kernel isnt a rocket science.I was compiling with fedora1 and all(2.4 kernel) it is easy,try kar ke dekho
Only thing,worth optimizing is Linux kernel(unlike gentoo guys proclaims that source optimization works!!) other things are just waste of the time

In Debian systems though,kernel-package makes .debs,that is even more better!