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Bug 416551

Summary: ISO is not compatible with [sata | usb] drive
Product: Gentoo Release Media Reporter: David Heidelberg (okias) <david>
Component: All ISOAssignee: Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description David Heidelberg (okias) 2012-05-18 19:40:18 UTC
Gentoo ISO image is not able boot from [SATA | USB] drive, which making instalation harder (need to use for example Arch Linux ISO)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dd if=gentoo.iso of=/dev/sdb # /dev/sdb = SATA or USB drive
2. 
3.
Actual Results:  
system wont boot

Expected Results:  
system boot same way, as Arch Linux is able.

as a admin, I would like thank you for fixing this. It would make live for Gentoo admins better :-)
Comment 1 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2012-05-28 18:13:52 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 407369 ***