In the FAQ, code section 2.1, you refer to booting the "rescue" kernel image. Rescue seems to have gone away; this advice is obsolete for the current Gentoo (I used 1.4 RC2). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the cdrom 2. Try and boot the rescue image 3. watch it fail Probably changing the faq is in order. There actually is a deeper problem, in that booting the cdrom on a Sony VAIO doesn't seem to work (the actual intent of this section of the FAQ). I'm using a VAIO Z505 HS, and giving the "gentoo ide2=0x180,0x386" boot argument, but the cdrom isn't recognised. But that should probably go into another bug report...
The problem with Gentoo not seeing the Z505/R505 CD drive is because it requires firewire drivers, which aren't on the livecd AFAIK. If you can't get to a shell using a 1.4_rc* CD, try 1.2. Then bring your network up, and download a stage* tarball using wget or such. You can't see the CD after booting, but the install doesn't require the CD to be visible.
While my Z505 has firewire, the "default" cd shipped uses a pcmcia attached cdrom (newer models do use firewire). I had the failure using this pcmcia cdrom drive. But the bug was the FAQ saying to boot "rescue", which doesn't work; it wasn't about the the actual failure to find the cdrom. It appears that the FAQ is just broken about booting the z505; I found notes in the forums saying that the built in kernel doesn't include PCMCIA support; I don't independently know if this is correct or not...
A few more comment on what Jeff said, just to clarify what I say when installing > If you can't get to a > shell using a 1.4_rc* CD, try 1.2. I did get to a shell, but only the "boot floppy" commands were available. No dhcpcd daemon was present (that's on the larger cd image) because the initial mount of the CD failed. > Then bring your network up, and download > a stage* tarball using wget or such. It was precisely because there wasn't enough "stuff" to get the network up that I had so much trouble. > You can't see the CD after booting, > but the install doesn't require the CD to be visible. Maybe I'm too dense, but I couldn't get the network up without ifconfig, dhcpcd, or eepro100 drivers... -------------------------- My workaround was to use the redhat8.0 install cd's in "rescue" mode; to then bring up the network and get the stage1 tarball, and then chroot into the partition. -------------------------- But once again, the "bug" I'm trying to report is twofold: The FAQ says to boot "rescue ide2=..."; this doesn't work. I suspect what was intended is "gentoo rescue ide2=...". This is (I suspect) purely a typo. Part 2 is even that doesn't find the cd, perhaps because the pcmcia subsystem isn't on the boot floppy image?
reassinging to docs-team@gentoo.org
I'll remove the FAQ in total; there's no use for a FAQ that doesn't work.
Created attachment 16206 [details, diff] Patch - Remove section
Reviewed by antifa http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.documentation/227 Committed.
