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 1RU6pZ-0001RX-Fy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:13:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A693F21C06E; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:13:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nskntmtas06p.mx.bigpond.com (nskntmtas06p.mx.bigpond.com [61.9.168.152]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B0A21C02D for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:12:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nskntotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com ([58.172.72.46]) by nskntmtas06p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20111126011210.OQC28461.nskntmtas06p.mx.bigpond.com@nskntotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com> for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:12:10 +0000 Received: from tux.andor.dropbear.id.au ([58.172.72.46]) by nskntotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20111126011210.JMXT22866.nskntotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com@tux.andor.dropbear.id.au> for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:12:10 +0000 Received: from tux.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tux.andor.dropbear.id.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3115132F871 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:12:09 +1100 (EST) From: Paul Colquhoun To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive (SOLVED) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:12:09 +1100 Message-ID: <2369246.SQS5bAGJmN@tux> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.3 (Linux/3.0.6-gentoo; KDE/4.7.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1322267330.1498810.1.camel@stretch> References: <3002160.HuQVx7n6jd@tux> <1322267330.1498810.1.camel@stretch> 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-SIH-MSG-ID: rx4yFNP6TAD0zmR+0TexO1JwyFriqyB48ZoaRdJjqwQfTljHv9G9Eo6zDfwH0YzgxD5NPBuHNGAgc67kXI7r X-Archives-Salt: f4f3e3ac-ebdd-40f0-87e9-7b22f6f823e1 X-Archives-Hash: 679067c425a23e830ccde998c31a530c 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!). -- 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.