Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 20008 install problem: "Could not find the root block device in ."

[Jarry <mr.jarry@gmail.com>]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> It looks to me like loader can not find my *cdrom*!
>> But that is strange, because kernel just booted from CD,
>> so it *must* see it!
> 
> Unfortunately, it's the BIOS that does this.  The kernel cannot boot by 
> itself by some magical means.  The BIOS must boot it.
> 
> Your hard drives are SATA as well (on the same controller) and only the 
> CD drive can't be found?  That's strange.  I suggest opening a bug about 
> it.

I have 2 sata hard-drives, and 1 sata dvd-writer, all attached to the
same controller (part of nvidia nforce4 southbridge). Despite of that,
only hard-drive partitions are correctly detected...

I tested gentoo-2008.0 on different computer, but again with sata-disk
and sata-dvd, and this time P35-chipset (Intel). No problem! It seems
to me the problem is in sata_nv module (nVidia chipset): it is loaded,
but detects only disks, no cd/dvd drives. Maybe compilled without
cd-filesystem support?

FYI, I downloaded old good install-amd64-minimal-2007.0.iso, burned,
booted, and gues what? All works! I'm going to open bug about it...

Jarry

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