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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:16 am    Post subject: Error installing 2005.1 - "No bootable medium found&quo Reply with quote

Hi All,
Trying to use the 2005.1 minimal live CD to install Gentoo on an Ultra 60, I get the following message:
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Attempting to mount CD: - /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
No bootable medium found. Waiting for new devices...
Attempting to mount CD: - /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
Attempting to mount CD: - /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
Could not find CD to boot, something else needed!
Determining root device...
The root block device is unspecified or not detected.
Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell...
boot() ::

I've searched the forums for the same error, but they all seem to focus on x86 or AMD64. This also happens with the 2005.0 minimal live CD.
Does anybody know what's going on here?

Thanks,
Vu.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does the CD-ROM get detected by the kernel?

If you're not sure, feel free to paste the output here for verification.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not sure if this is the right method for checking, but after typing 'shell', the output of 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' shows two hard disks and my cdrom. Does that help?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just popped in a 2004.3 LiveCD and it's doing the same, except it's trying to mount from "/newroot/dev/cdroms/cdrom0".

Can anyone help? I really don't know how to get around this apart from trying solaris.
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