Re: [gentoo-user] What's the latest install-from-USB-key procedure?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 05 November 2009 23:08:53 Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 07:10:48AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote
>
> > I'm in the midst of doing it on an ASUS 1005HA without an I/net
> > connection; I've got as far as booting with a defective kernel from Lilo
> > & should have it working tomorrow (the SCSI configuration is wrong).
> > 'unetbootin' is the best way to write what you need on the USB stick;
> > System Rescue is good, but lacks ADSL support;
> > the Gentoo Minimal Install ISO has worked well for me.
>
>   Unfortunately, it can't find the hard drive on my machine.  But
> Knoppix can.  So I'll follow the install-under-Knoppix instructions at
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml and hope to figure out the
> hard drive.

Not sure whether this has been mentioned already in this thread, but at one 
stage of kernel development* when I was installing on a new laptop, I had to 
switch AHCI off in the BIOS for the installation kernel to be able to see the 
hard disk, then back on again once I was running my own kernel.

Perhaps something like this is happening to you.

* At least, the kernel as configured for the Gentoo minimal installation CD.

-- 
Rgds
Peter