From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:01:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120302100124.5026e5df@khamul.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw23QLu55prsTZw9DQ1ig+zayqY9FuU9DTjRLWyW=Zuk8Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:12:11 -0800
Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just received the new Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook and I'm trying to
> install Gentoo but I can't get install-amd64-minimal-20120223.iso to
> boot via a USB key. I installed it to two different USB keys via
> unetbootin but I get this right after it asks for the keymap:
>
> Looking for the cdrom
> Attempting to mount media:- /dev/sda1
> Attempting to mount media:- /dev/sda2
> Attempting to mount media:- /dev/sda3
> Attempting to mount media - /dev/sda4
> Media not found
> No bootable medium found. Waiting for new devices...
> Could not find CD to boot, something else needed!
> Determining root device...
> Could not find the root block device in .
>
> It must be reading the USB key fine or it never would have gotten that
> far. Maybe it has no drivers for the disk controller, but then why
> does it reference the cdrom? I tried the nosata and ide=nodma options
> to no avail.
Use some other distro on the USB device to get you a chroot.
Check BIOS carefully. Some of those options can dick with booting
immensely
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-02 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-02 2:12 [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook Grant
2012-03-02 8:01 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2012-03-02 20:29 ` Grant
2012-03-02 23:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-02 23:35 ` Grant
2012-03-02 23:05 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-03-02 23:39 ` Grant
2012-03-03 17:50 ` Grant
2012-03-03 18:13 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-03 18:15 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-03 18:22 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-03 18:24 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-03 20:12 ` Joshua Murphy
2012-03-04 20:12 ` Grant
2012-03-04 20:34 ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-05 1:53 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-05 13:40 ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-05 1:58 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-04 20:02 ` Grant
2012-03-04 20:06 ` Grant
2012-03-04 21:09 ` Grant
2012-03-04 21:45 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-04 21:56 ` Grant
2012-03-04 22:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-04 22:36 ` Grant
2012-03-05 2:19 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-05 2:12 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-05 2:06 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-05 21:41 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-05 16:00 ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-05 16:33 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-05 20:17 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-05 21:33 ` Joshua Murphy
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