I had a similar problem with booting off my firewire CD-ROM with Gentoo 1.4rc3. I popped in my 1.2 disc and it worked fine. Just be sure that when you're untarring that initial bootstrap to use the 1.4 tarball.
Also, the Dell folk swore to me that bootable USB CD-ROM drives were mythical. Wes On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Jon Fox wrote: > I've got gentoo running since January on my old HP Omnibook, > but I just for a Dell D400 at work (light and small) > and want to kill off WinXP. However, I need to be able to > boot up something on the new machine which has no ide or > scsi cdrom... just a usb cdrom. > > I can't seem to get my gentoo disk to boot properly as the mounting > doesn't want to use a usb cdrom on the LiveCD. > > I get: > mount: Mounting /newroot/dev/cdroms/* on > /newroot/mnt/cdrom failed: No such file or directory. > > -- CD Not found > > and I have a busybox prompt. But no modules that seem to give scsi > simulation and thus can't mount the cdrom. > > Unless somebody has a better suggestion on how to get a working > filesystem, I'm going to try a debian install and bootstrap from there. > > -- Jon/mycr0ft > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
