On 11/17/2010 09:35 AM, Joseph wrote:
On 11/17/10 13:57, Stroller wrote:
http://www.sysresccd.org/
I've tried Gentoo ISO first. I've downloaded the latest minimal AMD64 ISO and they will not boot my AMD Athlon 64 processor 3800 (the below ISO boot my other box OK).
The other box has a different mother board?
I've tried: install-amd64-minimal-20101111.iso The system start booting and stops at: Looking for the cdrom ... Attempting to mount media: - /dev/hda
I just booted install-amd64-minimal-20101111.iso and it mounts /dev/sr0 instead of looking for /dev/hda. The /dev/hd* notation is used only by the deprecated IDE drivers, while the newer ATA drivers use /dev/sd* instead. So, why does the gentoo install disk look for /dev/hda on your machine? Dunno, but I'm curious what it finds on your other machine. Does that machine have any BIOS settings that deal with hard drives, like LBA and old stuff like that?
This system boots OK older ISO AMD64 - 2008 but not the latest ISO.
Weird. My guess is that the different behavior has to do with the new ATA drivers. I think they are newer than 2008, but I'm not certain.
OK I've tried as you suggested, http://www.sysresccd.org/ and it works OK. When I boot I have network eth0 and it loads driver forcedeth I've compiled the same driver into my current kernel but there is no eth0
Does dmesg say anything about forcedeth or eth* ?
