On Thursday 19 January 2006 11:45, Charles Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Install Gentoo with SATA DVD/CD drive?': > Anyone got this to work?
Normally, SATA CD/DVD drives are not picked up by the current or mm kernels. There is a libata module option: atapi_enabled since ~2.6.14. If you are booting a kernel of that version or greater, simply append libata.atapi_enabled=1 to the kernel (if libata is compiled in) or modprobe command-line. If you are using a livecd with an older kernel version, you'll just have to hope that the livecd builder applied the necessary patch to older kernels to support ATA_ATAPI -- the patch is rather trivial, so if you have other hardware that forces you to use one of these older kernels during initial install, contact me and I can tell you what to patch. [Heck, I use a similar, trivial patch instead or passing a module parameter.] -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list