jlowell
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Posted: July 15 2004,05:47 |
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First of all, allow me to express my thanks to everyone here that had tried to offer some clearer understanding of this problem, most recently cbagger01 and ke4nt1. ke4nt1, by any measure, an outstanding analysis of the principal points of this thread.
I would hasten to offer a clarification on my use of the term, CDRW, ke4nt1. I've used it, perhaps incautiously, to describe only the capability of the drive in question, read only or read/write, not the capability of any form of media. Simply to let you know, I use only writable, not re-writable, media here, but my terminology appears to have been less than helpful in any event. The device initially in use on the computer in question was a CD reader. Since tonight's new installation, it's been a CD reader/writer, or, as I termed it, a CDRW, meaning CDRW drive. I regret the confusion.
Now, to these masterful analyses. First that of ke4nt1.
| Quote | | Could the Promise ATA be a challenge? |
Possibly, but not of necessity in my mind. The Promise Controller is the fairly recent Ultra ATA TX-2 100. However, hardware detection on the Gentoo 2004.1 livecd has misidentified the device connected to it in the past, seeing it as /dev/hda when it should have seen /dev/hde. This matter is being treated as a likely bug by Gentoo development at the moment. As a matter of fact, I was compelled to use the KNOPPIX CD to read the hardware correctly and to jump start the Gentoo install on this machine. Earlier Gentoo livecds have not had this kind of difficulty though.
| Quote | | Did you try a "failsafe" option at this point? or "dsl noacpi" or others? |
No.
| Quote | | Seems to me you've proved that the image WILL boot your computer. We just need to get the HD bus to take the cdrom.. You're not using a CDRW, are you?? |
Covered extensively in the above mea culpa. 
| Quote | | If you can get knoppix, feather, etc to boot, use that to WGET the iso file. Don't use a windows browser, grab an old copy of ws-ftp95, or CuteFTP, or SmartFTP, or something like, and use that. |
Interesting approach. I'll get back to you with a report on it. Thanks again for taking the time to analyze this thread.
And now, cbagger01. From your url, sir:
| Quote | | could it be a problem with syslinux (does DSL use it?) not working with older hardware. |
Worth looking at, eh? Does DSL, in fact, use syslinux with 0.7.2?
Regards.
jlowell
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