[plug] booting from a usb cdrom drive without bios support

[Caleb Duggan]

Im determined to get gentoo working this time.  The drive in the computer  
just dosent like the cd for some reason but it works in other machines.  I  
might try installing it on another machine.  I just want to experiment  
with it and if i manage to get it working well, ill put it on my main  
computer(long term plan).

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:58:45 +0800, Tomasz Grzegurzko <tomasz89 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On 4/28/06, Caleb Duggan <caleb.duggan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I dont really know how to do any of those. But The second one sounds  
>> good.
>>
>> Don't suppose gentoo has a boot floppy like some of the other distros?
>> does anyone know? a quick google search didnt find much other than smart
>> boot manager(which didnt work)
>>
>> On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:33:59 +0800, W.Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>  
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Would a floppy (toms perhaps) or USB key boot get you far enough to  
>> load
>> > the drivers and transfer control?  Use loadlin on the local disk (or
>> > floppy) if windows as per the ancient redhat installs?
>> >
>> > Another method that I use is to create a local chroot copy and build
>> > gentoo within the local operating system and just boot from it when
>> > complete (the local OS needs to be a linux though).
>> >
>> > If windows, will the windows console (F5 or maybe F8 during boot)  
>> allow
>> > you to transfer control to the CD and continue booting (have not tried
>> > this so I dont know if it will work)
>> >
>> > BillK
>> >
>> > On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 16:17 +0800, Caleb Duggan wrote:
>> >> Nope. It looks like Smart Boot manager won't detect the drive.
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:33:46 +0800, W.Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Anything here help?
>> >> >
>> >> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml
>> >> >
>> >> > BillK
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 20:27 +0800, Arie Hol wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On 27 Apr 2006 at 18:45, Caleb Duggan wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > How do i do that? do i need to add some lines into the grub
>> >> menu.lst
>> >> >> file?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > its a gentoo cd(2006.0 minimal boot) im trying to boot from but  
>> i
>> >> dont
>> >> >> > know where to point initrd, kernel and root to
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
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>> >>
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> No boot floppy unless you make your own from the kernel sitting on the
> boot cd (dd it to a floppy disk, pass the right parameters to access
> an initrd on a second disk, then pass root control to the (now
> discovered) cd).
>
> If you're having trouble with the gentoo alternative install guide,
> you're probably going to find this whole experience tough.. Can you
> provide any other information on why some methods have failed? What
> has gone wrong, what errors are you getting?
>
> Tomasz
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