On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:36:56 +1100, Paul Colquhoun
<paul...@andor.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:29:16 PM Dale wrote:
Paul Colquhoun wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:28:50 PM Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 11:01 +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> AFAIK most (all) modern computers that have CDROM drives are
SATA, at
>> least the one i bought a couple of years ago does.. so I'm
wondering
>> if
>> your problem is not that you have a SATA CDROM but something
else.
>>
>> Have you tried boot media other than the Gentoo livecd?
>
> Actually I had tried 4 boot media *other* *than* the Gentoo
livecd, for
> the simple reason that I thought they had stopped making them!
>
> Stupid me.
>
> Looking at the Gentoo download page, they have an AMD64 minimal
install
> CD image created just days ago.
>
> The Gentoo livecd works! I should have looked there first and
saved
> myself a lot of trouble (and 4 blank CDs!).
Could it be something in the BIOS maybe? My rig that I built last
year
has a SATA CD/DVD burner and it boots Gentoo CDs, Knoppix,
systemrescue
and another that I can't recall. Knotix (?) or something. It
should
work. You may want to try systemrescue if you haven't already. I'd
figure this out before something happens and you have to boot
something
to fix it.
Dale
:-) :-)
It may be something in the BIOS, but I didn't change anything between
the
other livecds NOT working, and the Gentoo one working, so the Gentoo
livecd
seems to have done something different.
I have been running SATA-DVD drive (ok not CD) for a few years with no
problems with reading or writing from either Gentoo-Linux or Windoze
