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 1RU5jb-00014T-Fz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:03:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84D3A21C02F; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:02:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nskntmtas06p.mx.bigpond.com (nskntmtas06p.mx.bigpond.com [61.9.168.152]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9946A21C0E9 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:01:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nskntotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com ([58.172.72.46]) by nskntmtas06p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20111126000128.WKLQ28461.nskntmtas06p.mx.bigpond.com@nskntotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com> for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:01:28 +0000 Received: from tux.andor.dropbear.id.au ([58.172.72.46]) by nskntotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20111126000127.ILHG22866.nskntotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com@tux.andor.dropbear.id.au> for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:01:27 +0000 Received: from tux.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tux.andor.dropbear.id.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D10A132F871 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:01:27 +1100 (EST) From: Paul Colquhoun To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:01:26 +1100 Message-ID: <3002160.HuQVx7n6jd@tux> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.3 (Linux/3.0.6-gentoo; KDE/4.7.3; x86_64; ; ) 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: qRg2EdLuXAD+xGBwiTHvZAN+lAru8CI75JcMWtRmtx0aUkLFqaKPB9rdLOVRw4j21D5GNhuPPGkwYazlXLU= X-Archives-Salt: 6574f44b-29a0-461b-a4c2-e11c1de09b26 X-Archives-Hash: f69f89fdf47cb811713992f29e9a4627 I've just started building a new system from scratch, and have run into a problem. The motherboard only has SATA and USB conectors, no legacy IDE/PATA/FDD/etc connectors at all. The problem is that all 4 of the Live CDs I have tried fail to boot completely. All of them bring up the initial menus, then run the kernel, but then fail at the same point, which is when they attempt to (re)mount the filesystems from the CD, which they all claim not to be able to find. Selecting a shell at this point shows that there are no /dev/sr? devices detected, and all the /dev/sd? devices correspont to hard drives. 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? The other option I am exploring is borrowing a USB CD drive to see if that will work. All I need it for is the initial bootstrap into Gentoo. With the growing trend of SATA-only motherboards, I hope there is at least 1 Live CD out there that works. The Live CD versions that I have tried are: Sabayon Awsome 7 Kubuntu 11.10 Fedora-16 SystemRescueCD 2.4.0 P.S. This is an AMD64 motherboard, so a 64 bit kernel is needed. Thanks. -- 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.