On 16 July 2015 at 23:48, <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >> On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >>> >>>> On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> > The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive >>>>> > (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use >>>>> > unetbootin to do the magic though. >>>>> >>>>> Has that changed recently? I tought the minimal ISO was already >>>>> "hybrid" and would boot directly from a USB drive. I would have sworn >>>>> I did nothing other than "dd" it to a USB drive the last time I did an >>>>> install. >>>> >>>> So do I, it worked perfectly, I was very impressed. >>> >>> Yes, that is what I thought I read here (and know I read it on the >>> wiki). But it failed for me (this is my first time with flash; >>> previously I used a CD-R) and apparently also for McKinnon. >>> Perhaps there is a basic minimal-iso/flash/al+an incompatibility. :-) >> >> The only thing I can think of is that bootloader recognize the device >> via BIOS and Linux (install-cd configuration) does not as it is >> special device. >> >> Try to exit to shell and see if you have /dev/sd*. > > I did that. only sda and sda[123], the hard drive
So I guess this is a special device that the minmal-cd is not recognizing. >> Read dmesg and see if storage is recognized. > > dmesg | grep storage > > usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage good, there should be helpful information after that line, can you paste it?
