Bug 14645

Summary:	Firewire Combo Drive Not Functioning (Sony VAIO R505GL)
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Steve Ruff <steve>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jeffames
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Steve Ruff 2003-01-27 17:09:57 UTC

Support for firewire should be added to the kernel or included as modules so that firewire 
optical drives could be used for installation. Currently, if the system is booted from a 
firewire combo drive, the user is dropped to BusyBox because the CD can't be found. 
This prevents the user from even doing a network installation. Firewire support should be 
included as modules to open Gentoo to users of firewire hardware.

Comment 1 Jeff Ames 2003-02-13 20:19:17 UTC

There is a workaround for this.  If you boot from a 1.2 livecd, you can get
to a shell, from which you can start eth0, download one of the (1.4) stageX tarballs, and install.  I had the same problem as you with 1.4_rc1, but haven't
tried 1.4_rc2.

Comment 2 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-03-14 21:30:40 UTC

latest experimentals ahve firewire in the initrd to boot cdroms, 
its untested right now
www.gentoo.org/~livewire

Comment 3 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-12 07:29:43 UTC

ok, this should be fixed from here on in. for comprehensive firewire support, a 2.6 kernel is really needed.

Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-25 11:24:33 UTC

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.