Booting from SATA DVD drive?

KungFuHamster · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:32 pm Post subject: Booting from SATA DVD drive?

Does the 2005.1 installer support booting from a serial ATA optical drive? I've been scouring the internet looking for a LiveCD that does support this, and I haven't had any luck so far.
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Frumple · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:09 pm Post subject:

I am facing this problem too, is there any live-cd that can boot fom a sata optical drive?

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truc · Advocate Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 3199

u can boot on sata drive with the ubuntu live-cd, that's actually how i rescue my system after doing very bad things..

My motherboard is an nforce2, the gentoo install cd just can't load the sata_nv module, but ubuntu cd do it just fine;)

Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 9:09 am Post subject:

I booted from a SATA DVD-drive. What is the problem you encountered? Didn't it find the CD in the drive? Or did it find it but gave errors upon boot? I added doscsi to the kernel command line to make sure it catched all modules.

Frumple · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 5:16 pm Post subject:

Thanks guys for the fast answers

I will try both aproaches to this problem, lamely I forgot about the doscsi parameter :oops:

, but it is nice to hear about others livecds that can boot directly from a sata optical drive, specially qhen my plans are installing via another distro so I can use the pc while gentoo compiles

Thanks for the help one more time.

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