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Bug 327541 - minimal installation cd 20100216 on VMware ESXi 3.5.0 no bootable medium found
Summary: minimal installation cd 20100216 on VMware ESXi 3.5.0 no bootable medium found
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: InstallCD (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Release Team
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: 320157 320311 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-07-08 21:36 UTC by Marek Boka
Modified: 2012-05-30 23:39 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Marek Boka 2010-07-08 21:36:20 UTC 
Trying to install Gentoo as a virtual machine using install-x86-minimal-20100216.iso mounted as the virtual cd drive. Host: VMware ESXi 3.5.0. Install is booting fine, and after "Making tmpfs for /newroot" tries to mount cdrom media "/dev/sda" (which is incorrect, because virtual cd in vmware works as an IDE emulation) and then gives up with "Media not found" message. Looks like installer can't find the IDE CD drive. After entering shell no sign of /dev/hd* files, only /dev/sd* 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new Linux virtual machine with CDROM drive in VMware ESXi 3.5.0 server 
2. Mount iso and start virtual machine
3. Press enter on "boot:" prompt and try to complete standard installation

Actual Results:  
installation failed, with "Media not found" message

Expected Results:  
Bootable CD should be found and installation should continue.

Looks like this topic has some valuable info about similar problem caused by ENODEV check:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-virtualization-90/2-6-31-kernel-on-vmware-ide-probe-fails-to-find-cd-drive-780042/
Comment 1 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2010-11-27 23:27:44 UTC 
*** Bug 320157 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2010-12-01 18:24:42 UTC 
*** Bug 320311 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2012-05-30 23:39:03 UTC 
I just confirmed today that I was able to boot a recent amd64 installcd and admincd on ESXi-4.1.