Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:31:43 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: OK, I took a few minutes away from his Half Life game to look at BIOS. I found the AHCI option and enabled it. Of course he wanted to get back to gaming so we tried to boot back into Windows but XP goes blue screen at the first disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 7, 2008 12:15 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:31:43 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: OK, I took a few minutes away from his Half Life game to look at BIOS. I found the AHCI option and enabled it. Of course he wanted to get back to gaming so we tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-07 Thread Galevsky
To boot my linux, I faced a JMicron eSata/Pata controller problem, that prevented my SATA disk from being recognized. = I had to use a 2.6.23 kernel, founded on the gentoo forum. (the knoppix latest released I used were 2.6.19 !!!) Do you also have a JMicron controller ? Is there any other

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:53:29 +0100, Galevsky wrote: AHCI is fully supported out of the box for Microsoft Windows Vista and the Linux operating system from kernel 2.6.19. Older operating systems require drivers written by the host bus adapter vendor in order to support AHCI. The Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-07 Thread Galevsky
On Jan 7, 2008 1:23 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Windows install that I mentioned having problems with AHCI is Vista. Good to know I just faced problem with AHCI on XP, and thought that there were no matter on Vista... so install drivers first for the whole M$ family...

[gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, My son built a PC Friday using an Asus P5E motherboard. We went to install Gentoo 2007.0 and found it didn't see the disk drives and hence cannot be installed. Clearly 2007.0 is getting quite loong in the tooth so we're wondering if there something newer somewhere that we could use?

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:21:07 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: My son built a PC Friday using an Asus P5E motherboard. We went to install Gentoo 2007.0 and found it didn't see the disk drives and hence cannot be installed. Are these SATA drives? Are the controllers running as AHCI? I have a P5E

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My son built a PC Friday using an Asus P5E motherboard. We went to install Gentoo 2007.0 and found it didn't see the disk drives and hence cannot be installed. Clearly 2007.0 is getting quite loong in the tooth so we're wondering if there something newer

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 6, 2008 3:42 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:21:07 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: My son built a PC Friday using an Asus P5E motherboard. We went to install Gentoo 2007.0 and found it didn't see the disk drives and hence cannot be installed. Are

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:52:14 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: The drive is SATA. I'm not familiar with AHCI. (What? Advanced Host controller Interface or something like that? If this is a driver that needs to be loaded let me know and I'll try booting again and looking around. Yep, good guess :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 6, 2008 4:11 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:52:14 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: The drive is SATA. I'm not familiar with AHCI. (What? Advanced Host controller Interface or something like that? If this is a driver that needs to be loaded let me know

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Dale: If you have two CD drives, you can boot Knoppix or another live CD and install from there. Why two? I have never done this but have read where others have and had no problem. Yep, did a Gentoo installation on a new laptop using a GRML 1.0 CD

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Dale
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Dale: If you have two CD drives, you can boot Knoppix or another live CD and install from there. Why two? I have never done this but have read where others have and had no problem. Yep, did a Gentoo