20100126 iso: not bootable, looking for cdrom, asus p5pe-vm

tahotube · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2010 Posts: 7

I went back to a 10/27/2007 iso I had laying around and it boots fine, recognizes
the cdrom: /dev/hda, and the sata hard disk: /dev/sda.
Using this iso back in 2007, I installed gentoo on this asus p5pe-vm motherboard
using an ide hard disk (not a sata).

Questions:

1> Is this a known problem in the 20100126 iso?
2> Is there a more current iso than 10/27/2007 that will not have this problem?
2> Is my plan to boot the 2007 iso, get the current 20100126 stage3 and continue
with the install a really bad idea?

Thanks for any help and feedback,

Bill

g.e.n.t.u.x. · Guru Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 410 Location: Berlin

hello tahotube.

have a look at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml therefor u need a livecd u want the one condition u got is u need an internetaccess. And with this doc you can download a stage3 and a portagesnapshot from mirror http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml.

both are the newest and the rest is on your own.

have nice day
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tahotube · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2010 Posts: 7

gentux,

Thanks for the reply.; however, I CAN do the download with my 2007 iso.

So the real HEART OF THE MATTER and question is:

Why is the 2010 minimal iso broken on my asus hardware described in the original post?

I apologize for being confusing in my original post.

Thanks again,

Bill

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

g.e.n.t.u.x. · Guru Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 410 Location: Berlin

my previous installation i chrooted from an ubuntu livecd. with and without framebuffer nothing gone around for me that i have the chance to use that.

have a sorry for that tired krauds english

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d2_racing · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 12:58 pm Post subject:

On my box, I always install Gentoo with the latest SystemRescueCD, because I want to cut and paste all my commands with Firefox on my chrooted console

yumyum · n00b Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 38 Location: Iceland

Yup, using a livecd with a desktop environment and a web browser is by far the easiest way to install gentoo. I always use ubuntu livecd for my installs so i can watch videos on youtube and stuff while compiling :p

I also always boot the livecd iso's from a usb stick so its way faster and no silly waiting for the drive to read the cd.
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EzInKy · Veteran Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 1742 Location: Kentucky

d2_racing · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:37 pm Post subject:

And the kernel support is awesome, always almost the latest stable