Install CD for versions 1.1a and 1.2 will not boot from SCSI CD Rom drive with Adaptec 2940 U2W controller The machine in question is an all SCSI system (specs follow at the bottom of the message), IDE controllers are turned off. I have no problem booting other cds on this system. Also, booting the Gentoo disk on one of my other (IDE based) systems works just fine. What happens is the following: during boot the SCSI detection finds my devices and gives the following message: " A BOOTABLE CD-ROM IS DETECTED IN YOUR CD-ROM DRIVE... The boot sections on your bootable CD-ROM are: 0. DEFAULT ENTRY " then a message saying something about SCSI setup successfully then it continues to boot from the HARDDISK... I've tried changing the boot settings in the motherboard and SCSI bios, however this did not make any difference. I've tried version 1.2 ix86, 1,2 i686, 1.1a ix86 all ISO images. I've burned the cds with Nero 5.5.6.4, cdrwin 4.0A, fireburner 2.1.7, all cds have the same problem. To work around this problem I did the following: - turned on IDE - installed a IDE cd rom drive - set all IDE bios settings to AUTO now its booting from the Gentoo install CD After modprobing the right modules for the scsi hardware, I took the same CD out of the IDE CDrom drive and used it in the SCSI cdrom drive for the remainder of the install. seems to me that the bootimage on the gentoo cd has a hard time booting from divices hooked up to an Adaptec 2940 U2W SCSI card (or maybe more SCSI cards?) system specs: ASUS K7M 500 -U AMD Athlon 600 Adaptec 2940 U2W Bios version 2.20.0 Pioneer DVD ROM DVD-305 192 MB ram pc 100 Matrox G400 max 32 MB
Can you try this with the new live cd?
I have the same problem here with the 1.4rc1 cd (UT version). Burned it with some Nero 5.5.X.X (could look it up if you think thats a factor). My Adaptec 2940U2W finds the disk as bootable, but boots from first scsi disk even if I have cdrom as first, second, and third boot-device in my bios. As a workaround, I disconnected the scsi-disks during controller scan, and hotplugged (yeah, I know that this IS risky) them when gentoo started without the scsi-disks present. Then all worked fine, even with my normal boot-priority (floppy, cdrom, scsidisk). I would gladly give you any system-information if that could help. Timo PS: Just noticed that I have the same controller on a K7 system as the other guy... will lookup the bios-version asap and upgrade to newest, if you think that helps
I filed that bug again for gentoo 1.4rc1 as bug 11275 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11275
i've tried it now with AHA-2940AU and Plextor 40-TSI it works fine, even if i disable the onboard IDE is this a onboard controller ?
Please try the "2002122100" or later livecd from http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/experimental/livecd/ and post your results here.
Do you really want two separate bugs on this? I think http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11275 is pretty much the same. Anyway, I just tested livecd-basic-x86-2002122100.iso, with same same result: Disc being detected as bootable, and then my grub popping up. I get the strong feeling that somehow I am the one who has the bug... (pebcak) What should I check to cut out any possibiity of that?
Timo, this really sounds like a BIOS issue. Have you tried 1.4 final? Any luck?
Please try the latest LiveCD and reopen this bug if the problem persists.
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
