On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 16 July 2015 at 23:48, <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 > > 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?
I don't see how to copy/paste. The machine is an island. But the new few lines are Two about PCI 7 about reserving ram buffer switched to clocksource hped pnp acpi init 6 system lines about reserving (5 successful; 1800-18fe unsuccessful) Is there something specific I should look for. I will be trying system rescue CD. allan
