The Gentoo 2008.0 beta1 Install- and LiveCD show a GRUB command prompt, when trying to boot from CD in either AHCI or RAID mode. The CD boots fine when switching to SATA enhanced IDE mode. The motherboard I am using is a Asus P5E-VM DO and the DVD-Burner is a Plextor SATA burner Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Pop in a Gentoo 2008.0 beta1 LiveCD or Live DVD and try to boot in AHCI or RAID mode. Actual Results: Shows GRUB command prompt Expected Results: A nice booting LiveCD =)
Can you verify if this is still the case with 2008.0 Beta 2?
same buf here http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216097
Yup, the exact same issue, still occurs in beta 2.
This should be fixed in 2008.0, which is now released.