On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> >>> On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> 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 > Read dmesg and see if storage is recognized. dmesg | grep storage usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage allan
