Bug 26150

Summary:	Live CD wont boot on Dell 6350 Power Edge SCSI
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Chris Landegent <chris>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Bob Johnson (RETIRED) <livewire>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	major	CC:	saibarspeis
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Chris Landegent 2003-08-07 12:44:47 UTC

The box will boot fine to a RedHat cd, but not to ANY of the Gentoo LiveCD
iso's. I looked around on google but found no solutions. The problem is not with
the way the cd's were burned, other boxes boot off of them just fine.

SCSI info:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
  Vendor: NEC      Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:466 Rev: 1.06
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: ICP      Model: Host Drive  #00  Rev:
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 01 Id: 06 Lun: 00
  Vendor: DELL     Model: 1x3 U2W SCSI BP  Rev: 5.12
  Type:   Processor                        ANSI SCSI revision: 02



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Place cd in drive
2. Reboot
3. Nada!



Expected Results:  
It should have booted the Gentoo CD for installation

Comment 1 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-08-07 14:27:02 UTC

Are you booting with "gentoo doscsi"?

Comment 2 Chris Landegent 2003-08-07 14:38:21 UTC

I think you misunderstood me. The box just doesnt recognize the cd as bootable.
CD in drive, boot box, it doesn't recognize the cd as bootable.
Pop the CD in another box, boot the other box, it recognizes the CD as bootable.
That eliminates the possibility of it being a problem w/ the burned CD.

I read about a similiar error on at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8690 however, the fact that the box wont boot off of a Gentoo CD sounds to me like a bug, not something that should be worked around by using a 3rd party's boot floppy.

Comment 3 Andrew Cooks (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-27 11:16:06 UTC

I know you're convinced that it's not the CD and that your hardware isn't exactly ancient, but I've seen cases where cheap CDR media stops working on certain CDROMs, especialy if the CD's a few months old.

I tried scanning through the forum thread you suggested, but the first 3 pages didn't deliver anything obviously related.

Can you still reproduce this?

Comment 4 Chris Landegent 2004-01-27 14:48:53 UTC

Sorry if I didn't make it clear, I tried several cd's and several burners. Each of those booted fine in every other type of machine tested in.

Comment 5 Alexandru Dan 2008-11-18 11:04:57 UTC

I have an IBM BladeCenter with 7 IBM BladeServers installed in the shelfs. This appliance has a Network KVM in it's software and can boot anything from a remote computer. You can insert a floppy image, a CD image, you can direct the cdrom to be one of your drives in your (Windows) computer. The install-x86-minimal-2008.0 just booted right now but after boot i've decided to give ia64 a try since my processor is an Intel S5140 CPU with 64bit technology. I've created the partitions un my FC storage drive and downloaded ia64 stage3 and portage snapshot into it. I've unmounted everything and tryied to boot up the install-ia64-minimal-2008.0.iso file so I can chroot and start preparing the machine for the instalation of kernel sources. My bios also reports "This is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy and press any key to try again...".

As I've explained above, this server uses an emulated intel cdrom inserting the image in the drive using the networking capability of it's KVM software so a faulty in the CD is not possible and the image was downloaded twice from two sources in the gentoo mirrorlist.

My guess is that there's really a bug in the cd image for ia64 gentoo livecd.