I get the message can't mount cdrom (or something to that effect) and booting stops. Switching the cd to the primary cdrom (and rebooting) fixes the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.put boot cd second drive 2.power on 3. Actual Results: boot process stops Expected Results: Figure out from which device it booted and mount that one?
I am having the same issue except I only have one CDROM drive. The system starts to boot, it displays a message about ISO Linux starting up, then tells me that it can not find the CD-ROM... the same CD that it is running from. This one is a show stopper! Trying to test Gentoo to replace my RH7.2 on Dell Dimention XPS 200 (no old slow jokes please) Thx Kevin Fries
I Gave up on gentoo, after I found too many problems with my hardware. Not recognizing my cdroms after install. No way to install a new version of hpijs. Could not get my (philips) webcam to work. And I did not even try my scanner (has been a problem with other distiburions) All of those I need/like to work if I want to use this machine as a server. I am just not smart enough to resolve those things myself. I must say I do like the direction gentoo is taking and at some stage I will have another go at it. In the meen time I will just use fedora, after using suse and mandrake for years. My reason for switching is that I think they are getting way to expensive and they are putting in to much of their own (non gpl) stuff.
Is this still an issue?
why are you booting from the second cdrom? the initrd is going to look for the livecdfs on the first cdrom drive ...
Would it be too hard for us to add some logic to the initrd to find the right CDROM? Perhaps for 2004.3?
Reason I booted from secondary CD-ROM was that I just happened to put the CD into that one. I reported it as a bug since I thought the gentoo people might be interested in it, as I am sure others could make a similar mistake. Hope this helps. Hans biesenbeek
Guys... the CD should be robust enough to look for itself on any available CD interface, on a local hard disk, and also in RAM. This would make things much easier in the future, don't you guys agree? This would allow the LiveCD to boot from any CDROM, after being installed on a local hard drive (think hdinstall), or booting from the network, as the image would be in RAM at that time.
Created attachment 39903 [details, diff] Patch
Patch in 3.0.2g; closing this bug as fixed - please reopen if the patch has any issues.
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.
