From: "Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:28:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1322267330.1498810.1.camel@stretch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3002160.HuQVx7n6jd@tux>
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 11:01 +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote:
> Some research tells me that this is a problem with SATA CD-ROMs, and
> needs a
> kernel configured with the libata module option atapi_enabled=1
>
> Does anybody know of a Live CD that will work with a SATA CD drive?
AFAIK most (all) modern computers that have CDROM drives are SATA, at
least the one i bought a couple of years ago does.. so I'm wondering if
your problem is not that you have a SATA CDROM but something else.
Have you tried boot media other than the Gentoo livecd?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-26 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-26 0:01 [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive Paul Colquhoun
2011-11-26 0:28 ` Albert W. Hopkins [this message]
2011-11-26 1:12 ` [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive (SOLVED) Paul Colquhoun
2011-11-26 5:29 ` Dale
2011-11-26 21:36 ` Paul Colquhoun
2011-11-27 2:14 ` Rod
2011-11-26 11:57 ` [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive James Broadhead
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