> I've been on the list for some time but this is my first post. I just 
> finished building my new system in preparation for doing my first Gentoo 
> install. 

It would have been more useful if you had asked about the components before
purchasing them.

> When I put the CD in it starts to do the install, I guess, but 
> stops very quickly with the following message:
> 
> The boot block device is unspecified or not detected.
> Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a Shell ...
> boot() ::
>

Find an IDE CDrom drive and use that for the install.  At some point,
SATA for cdrom will not consist of one beta/experimential unit in
the marketplace.

And at some point, maybe WD will support Linux on their hard drives.

Bob 
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