From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RUPwn-0001Uz-18 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:38:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF95521C051; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nskntmtas04p.mx.bigpond.com (nskntmtas04p.mx.bigpond.com [61.9.168.146]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4788421C0B5 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:37:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nskntcmgw09p ([61.9.169.169]) by nskntmtas04p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20111126213659.GYUN1385.nskntmtas04p.mx.bigpond.com@nskntcmgw09p> for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:36:59 +0000 Received: from tux.andor.dropbear.id.au ([58.172.72.46]) by nskntcmgw09p with BigPond Outbound id 1xcx1i0040zuyWJ01xczFs; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:36:59 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=QZLkT7nv c=1 sm=1 a=Nu2nO3JNLDLjShdeQKc00A==:17 a=Ddbs6y8Wx5sA:10 a=SIhu7vmKk1MA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=vPtwz2tBAAAA:8 a=zRf7B5vYGNLhD85n2S8A:9 a=sbTli6yfGMY6jH3db7MA:7 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=Nu2nO3JNLDLjShdeQKc00A==:117 Received: from tux.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tux.andor.dropbear.id.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF6731B7B2 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:36:57 +1100 (EST) From: Paul Colquhoun To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive (SOLVED) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:36:56 +1100 Message-ID: <17635071.NObeTONUHs@tux> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.3 (Linux/3.0.6-gentoo; KDE/4.7.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4ED0792C.8000802@gmail.com> References: <3002160.HuQVx7n6jd@tux> <2369246.SQS5bAGJmN@tux> <4ED0792C.8000802@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: a8af85f3-e70e-4a35-8e46-195571de5d48 X-Archives-Hash: 4bf612fad48d9100e39bc8fbcf0d88d5 On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:29:16 PM Dale wrote: > Paul Colquhoun wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:28:50 PM Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > >> 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? > > > > Actually I had tried 4 boot media *other* *than* the Gentoo livecd, for > > the simple reason that I thought they had stopped making them! > > > > Stupid me. > > > > Looking at the Gentoo download page, they have an AMD64 minimal install > > CD image created just days ago. > > > > The Gentoo livecd works! I should have looked there first and saved > > myself a lot of trouble (and 4 blank CDs!). > > Could it be something in the BIOS maybe? My rig that I built last year > has a SATA CD/DVD burner and it boots Gentoo CDs, Knoppix, systemrescue > and another that I can't recall. Knotix (?) or something. It should > work. You may want to try systemrescue if you haven't already. I'd > figure this out before something happens and you have to boot something > to fix it. > > Dale > > :-) :-) It may be something in the BIOS, but I didn't change anything between the other livecds NOT working, and the Gentoo one working, so the Gentoo livecd seems to have done something different. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.