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Simple Gentoo Installation Problem

  • 09-11-2006 8:53pm
    #1
    DemonOfTheFall
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    Hey guys.

    I've been trying to start an install of Gentoo on my main desktop pc this evening but I've fallen over at the first hurdle.

    Neither the gentoo livecd nor the minimal-livecd seem to be able to detect the CD-ROM drives that they're in.

    I select boot from cd-rom, iso-linux pops up, it asks me do I want any arguments or options used when loading the kernel. I say no, then it loads the ide and sata drivers and scans through my hardware for /boot/ However, it doesn't find the CD-rom drives, so it can go no further.

    They're standard IDE drives, NEC DVD-RWs. Plugged into IDE-0 Master and IDE-0 Slave.

    I've tried using the "doscsi" and "ide=nodma" boot arguments, to no avail. It still didn't pick them up.

    I googled this for ages and couldnt find anything related really...

    This is on a Gigabyte-DS3 Core2Duo board, for what it's worth. The IDE controller is a little weird in them, but I think it's been fine since the latest bios revision.

    Thanks for any help


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  • #2
    DemonOfTheFall
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭DemonOfTheFall


    Never mind, got it fixed with the "all-generic-ide" boot option. Now it just stops outputting a signal when it tries to initialise the ATI card, but I'm sure thats easier to fix.


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