On 26 November 2011 00:28, Albert W. Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > Have you tried boot media other than the Gentoo livecd?
I see that you have tried the SysRescueCD - have you tried the vanilla Gentoo LiveCD? I find that it is usually pretty resilient. In the past, I've found enabling legacy_ide mode helpful -- can't remember the exact line, but that's enough to start googling :) J