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On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 21:57 +0200, Jarry wrote: |
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> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> >> It looks to me like loader can not find my *cdrom*! |
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> >> But that is strange, because kernel just booted from CD, |
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> >> so it *must* see it! |
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> > |
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> > Unfortunately, it's the BIOS that does this. The kernel cannot boot by |
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> > itself by some magical means. The BIOS must boot it. |
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> > |
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> > Your hard drives are SATA as well (on the same controller) and only the |
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> > CD drive can't be found? That's strange. I suggest opening a bug about |
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> > it. |
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> I have 2 sata hard-drives, and 1 sata dvd-writer, all attached to the |
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> same controller (part of nvidia nforce4 southbridge). Despite of that, |
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> only hard-drive partitions are correctly detected... |
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> I tested gentoo-2008.0 on different computer, but again with sata-disk |
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> and sata-dvd, and this time P35-chipset (Intel). No problem! It seems |
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> to me the problem is in sata_nv module (nVidia chipset): it is loaded, |
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> but detects only disks, no cd/dvd drives. Maybe compilled without |
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> cd-filesystem support? |
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> |
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> FYI, I downloaded old good install-amd64-minimal-2007.0.iso, burned, |
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> booted, and gues what? All works! I'm going to open bug about it... |
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> Jarry |
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Please Include CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y into your configuration of the kernel |
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as well as CONFIG_SATA_NV=y |
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I believe the kernel docs indicate that the NVidia chipsets should be |
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supported by SATA_AHCI. Also, check your grub config. This is a snippet |
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of mine and I'm using SATA HD's on my laptop with an Nvidia chipset: |
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root (hd0,0) # the device where your /boot resides |
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kernel /linux-2.6.23-r8 root=/dev/sda2 # the device where / resides |
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