On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:28:50 PM Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 11:01 +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > > Some research tells me that this is a problem with SATA CD-ROMs, and > > needs a > > kernel configured with the libata module option atapi_enabled=1 > > > > Does anybody know of a Live CD that will work with a SATA CD drive? > > AFAIK most (all) modern computers that have CDROM drives are SATA, at > least the one i bought a couple of years ago does.. so I'm wondering if > your problem is not that you have a SATA CDROM but something else. > > Have you tried boot media other than the Gentoo livecd?
Actually I had tried 4 boot media *other* *than* the Gentoo livecd, for the simple reason that I thought they had stopped making them! Stupid me. Looking at the Gentoo download page, they have an AMD64 minimal install CD image created just days ago. The Gentoo livecd works! I should have looked there first and saved myself a lot of trouble (and 4 blank CDs!). -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.
