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I've just started building a new system from scratch, and have run into a |
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problem. |
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The motherboard only has SATA and USB conectors, no legacy IDE/PATA/FDD/etc |
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connectors at all. |
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The problem is that all 4 of the Live CDs I have tried fail to boot |
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completely. |
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All of them bring up the initial menus, then run the kernel, but then fail at |
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the same point, which is when they attempt to (re)mount the filesystems from |
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the CD, which they all claim not to be able to find. |
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Selecting a shell at this point shows that there are no /dev/sr? devices |
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detected, and all the /dev/sd? devices correspont to hard drives. |
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Some research tells me that this is a problem with SATA CD-ROMs, and needs a |
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kernel configured with the libata module option atapi_enabled=1 |
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Does anybody know of a Live CD that will work with a SATA CD drive? |
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The other option I am exploring is borrowing a USB CD drive to see if that |
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will work. |
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All I need it for is the initial bootstrap into Gentoo. |
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With the growing trend of SATA-only motherboards, I hope there is at least 1 |
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Live CD out there that works. |
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The Live CD versions that I have tried are: |
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Sabayon Awsome 7 |
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Kubuntu 11.10 |
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Fedora-16 |
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SystemRescueCD 2.4.0 |
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P.S. This is an AMD64 motherboard, so a 64 bit kernel is needed. |
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Thanks. |
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Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol |
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Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. |
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Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes. |
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