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Dell D420 - Can't boot LiveCD

post #1 of 4
8/26/06 at 7:35pm
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Greetings,

I just bought a Latitude D420, and I was about to install Gentoo on it, except I ran into one fairly important glitch, booting the LiveCD tells me that it can't find my cdrom drive (which it believes to be /dev/hda) and prompts me to enter a new boot device or drop to a shell.

Since the D420 does not have an internal CD-ROM bay, I purchased a MediaBase to go with it. I think that means the CD is a USB device. Can anyone offer some insight on what boot options I should be using to get into my LiveCD environment?

In advance, thanks.

Chris
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post #2 of 4
8/26/06 at 8:56pm
Looking up the bootflags now to see if you can do it, gonna take me a little bit to track it down.

You will want to load the USB modules, as well as direct your boot process to /dev/sda(Or sdb if you have an internal sata HD is a possibility) most likely.

Seablade
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post #3 of 4
8/26/06 at 9:00pm
Hmm it seems like it should be loading the USB modules, have you just tried redirecting it to /dev/sda or /dev/sdb?

Seablade
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post #4 of 4
8/26/06 at 9:33pm
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Actually, before I saw your reply I had downloaded and started burning the latest install media (Gentoo 2006.1 vs 2006.0)... it seems to have automatically recognized what it needed to do.

Looking at the output of mount, I can see that my cdrom is being recognized as /dev/sr0. I have never seen that one before... I will have to do some reading to find out about that.

Thanks anyway.
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