Greetings!
I am having problems with getting a Gentoo install to function. I am
using the Gentoo "livecd-X86-2006.0" iso, which I download from two
different sites, and both ISO's compare as identical.
The machine is a Dell PowerEdge 750, single Xeon Pentium 4 at 2.8GHz,
256M RAM, 250G Sata HD, no floppy, USB DVD -RW.
During the CD boot process, the install kernel loads, loads drivers for
sata, and then gives the following messages:
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda
No bootable medium found. Waiting for new devices...
Cound not find CD to boot. something else is needed!
It then loads the keymap, and then gives the following messages:
Determining root device...
The root block device is unspecified or not detected.
Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell.
boot() ::
I have tried doscsi, dodevfs as kenal options, but other than a
different list of drivers, get basically the same results.
How do I get the install kernel to load a USB driver for the external
DVD drive?
BUZ
Received on Sun Aug 20 12:57:10 2006
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