Re: Gentoo install not going

is there an option in the bios to emulate IDE devices for USB storage
devices? You could also try to put the drive in the machine if the 750
has an internal IDE connection.

BTW. Why Gentoo? I used to use Gentoo and liked it for the most part.
But I do blame it for the early (Luckily, on Warranty) demise of 2
laptop motherboards due the the heat generated by all night (and some of
the next day) compile sessions.

On Sun, 2006-20-08 at 12:56 -0600, Howard R. Hamilton wrote:
> 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
>
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Received on Sun Aug 20 20:25:00 2006