Bug 216324 – LiveCD won't boot

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Paul Melis 2008-04-05 13:49:17 UTC]

On a new a Dell system the 2008.0 beta 1 LiveCD fails to boot with the following messages (typed over from the non-booting system):

>> Attempting to mount media:- /dev/sda
!! Media not found
>> No bootable medium found. Waiting for new devices...
>> Looking for the cdrom
>> Attempting to mount media:- /dev/sda
!! Media not found
!! Cound not find CD to boot, something else needed!
>> Determining root device..
!! Could not find the root block device in .

It seems the CD-Rom player on the second SATA port can't be found. The chipset is ICH9-based/Intel 82801 as far as I can tell.

During scanning of the different driver modules the "Scanning for ata_piix" takes ages to finish, roughly 4 minutes, while the other modules load in a snap.

With SystemRescueCD 1.0.1 (which is based on 2.6.24.4) the system _is_ bootable.

[Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2008-04-05 15:55:58 UTC]

Is the CD-ROM SATA or IDE? If IDE, is your IDE controller marvell or jmicron?

[Comment 2 Paul Melis 2008-04-05 16:09:59 UTC]

It's a SATA drive. Relevant piece from dmesg after boot:

ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf800 ctl 0xf700 bmdma 0xf400 irq 18
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf600 ctl 0xf500 bmdma 0xf408 irq 18
ata1.00: ATA-8: SAMSUNG HD501LJ, CR100-13, max UDMA7
ata1.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata2.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorp DVD+/-RW TS-H653B, D300, max UDMA/100
ata2.00: applying bridge limits
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100

[Comment 3 Paul Melis 2008-04-05 16:12:41 UTC]

Sorry, "after boot" means after booting SystemRescueCD 1.0.1 :)

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2008-04-08 21:49:53 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 209491 ***