From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 754E0AC791 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:43:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17roSz-00024U-00 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 01:42:45 +0200 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17roSz-00024L-00 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 01:42:45 +0200 Path: heather.int.siteman.co.uk!news From: Mark Gordon Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 00:35:12 +0100 Organization: Not very often Message-ID: <20020919003512.2a8a431c.spamtrap@flash-gordon.me.uk> References: <200209181758.g8IHwvk22343@mw5.texas.net> <1032376834.17110.44.camel@orange-pc.ces.clemson.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.19.79.226 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032392565 7956 212.19.79.226 (18 Sep 2002 23:42:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 23:42:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; ) Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Directions please Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: f4c711b1-1950-4b15-b0db-8f7cbf49f135 X-Archives-Hash: 29ca1b012220af4bd5242fb77b417b35 On 18 Sep 2002 15:20:34 -0400 Grant Goodyear wrote: > > Also the 2940 is running version 1.23 of the bios (latest one > > available)... in theory it is suppose to support bootable CD's > > but it doesn't seem to work with this oh and btw I used the > > livecd-ut2003-x86-1.4_rc1.iso version. > > > > The CD works fine when I use it on a machine with an IDE CD ... it's > > just that SCSI CD on my home machine that is the problem. And it is > > strange that when the system is booting up it notices that it has a > > bootable CD and reports it during the adaptec device check. But no > > clue why it decides to ignore it and just jumps to the hard drive > > with my operating system. For an experiment to see if I could force > > it to boot from the SCSI cd I disconnected the harddrive so it > > wouldn't have another device to boot from ... but that failed as it > > refused to boot from anything. > > Can you boot other cd's using this drive? The earlier livecd had a My bet is that he can't. As well as the SCSI BIOS detecting that the CD is bootable you also have to set the main BIOS of the motherboard to boot from SCSI (not CD) before the HD. -- Mark Gordon