I have older PC Dell Poweredge 300, a Pentium3, and used gentoo-nofb nox or gentoo installs and errors out on cannot mount boot cd on hdc. livecd 20030911 P3 v1.4 works fine.
Just tried x86-mini-2004.3-r1 livecd and same type of error cannot mount cd. Steve
What kind of CDROM is it and exactly which ISO images did you try?
Hardware: Dell Poweredge 300/800 pentium3 800Mhz SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-140B Hard Drive WD800LB 256Mram Using livecd linux 1.4 ver# 20030911 did an lsmod and lspci results below. lsmod Module used by eepro100 mii eepro100 floppy serial isa-pnp serial cloop usb-storage hid uhci usbprobe usb-storage hid uhci lspci host bridge intel corp 440bx/zx/dx 82443bx/zx/dx host bridge rev3 pci bridge intel corp 440bx/zx/dx 82443bx/zx/dx agp bridge rev3 pci bridge digital equipment corp decchip 21152 rev3 isa bridge intel corp 82371 ab/eb/mb piix4 isa rev2 ide interface intel corp 82371 ab/eb/mb piix4 ide rev1 usb controller intel corp 82371 ab/eb/mb piix4 usb rev1 bridge intel corp 82371 ab/eb/mb piix4 acpi rev2 ethernet controller intel corp 82557/8/9 [ethernet pro 100] rev 08 vga ati tech inc 3d rage iic agp rev7a audio cirrus logic crystal cs4281 pci audio rev1 When I used to run window NT server on this box I had to load aic78xx.sys during the install. I searched the gentoo forums and found topics below Topic 289142 from feb 2005 Topic 122160 from jan 2004 Topic 267325 from dec 2004 Testing so far: livecd ver 20030911 works fine livecd ver x86-mini-2004.3-r1 fails during install cannot mount cd livecd ver x86-univ-2004.3-r1 fails during install livecd 2006.0 fails during install mounting cd livecd 2006.0 mini fails during the install mounting cd suse 10.1 just fails during install cannot read cd fedora core 5 fails during install cannot read cd fedora core 1 works fine knoppix 5.1 fails during install knoppix 4.0.2 works fine Thanks for your help in advance. Steve
Is the CD-ROM SCSI? If so, you'll need to pass 'doscsi' to the kernel to load the proper modules.
cd-rom is ide but seems to be interfaced through an adaptec7860 controller. installing Gentoo forum topic number 267325 seems to describe my problem, but is 2 years old. Does another way exist around this problem? Steve
Try booting with doscsi.
Since the Adaptec driver is only started with "doscsi" (which I think has changed since 1.4), I'm going to mark this as FIXED. If it is, in fact, not fixed, please REOPEN the bug when you have some time to work with us to troubleshoot it further.
