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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




  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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