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creator20110219
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:46 am    Post subject: troubles using live CDs Reply with quote
When i boot from any linux CD, kernel fails to detect CD ROM drive in 9 of 10 times. i tried 3 different CDs: ubuntu 10.04 live, kubuntu 10.10 install cd, sysrescuecd 1.5. during boot process i get error that media with system files is not found. then system drops to minishell. and when i ls /dev i see no sr0
strange, i tried 2 different CD ROMs and 2 different PCs - all the same. CD ROMs have ide interfaces.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
creator20110219,

Welcome to Gentoo.

What kernel versions do your CDs have ?
Code:
uname -a
will show it.

This typically happens when the driver for your IDE chipset is missing from the kernel.
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Linux sysresccd 2.6.32.14-std155-i386 #6 SMP Mon May 31 09:55:01 UTC 2010 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi, try the latest version of SystemRescueCD, version 2.0.1

https://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd/files/sysresccd-x86/2.0.1/systemrescuecd-x86-2.0.1.iso/download
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