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fiskah
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:38 am    Post subject: Cannot boot from minimal installation cd: Could not find CD Reply with quote
Hi!

I'm trying to boot a machine from the minimal installation cd. I usually just insert the CD and the magick happens, but this time is different...

It starts up by loading the Gentoo kernel etc., but eventually it says:


Code:
No bootable medium found. Waiting for new device.
...
Could not find CD to boot, something else needed!
mount: mounting /newroot/dev on /dev failed: No such file or directory
...
!! The root block device is unspecified or not detected.
Please specify a device for boot, or "shell" for a shell...


I am booting from an external USB cd drive.


How can this be solved? :)

Thanks in advance.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Your CD may be being detected as a SCSI device, try passing the bootoption doscsi

See the "Booting the Installation CD" section at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#book_part1_chap2
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
slack---line wrote:
Your CD may be being detected as a SCSI device, try passing the bootoption doscsi

See the "Booting the Installation CD" section at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#book_part1_chap2


Perfect! it worked!

Thanks a lot!
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