On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 21:57 +0200, Jarry wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> It looks to me like loader can not find my *cdrom*! > >> But that is strange, because kernel just booted from CD, > >> so it *must* see it! > > > > Unfortunately, it's the BIOS that does this. The kernel cannot boot by > > itself by some magical means. The BIOS must boot it. > > > > Your hard drives are SATA as well (on the same controller) and only the > > CD drive can't be found? That's strange. I suggest opening a bug about > > it. > > I have 2 sata hard-drives, and 1 sata dvd-writer, all attached to the > same controller (part of nvidia nforce4 southbridge). Despite of that, > only hard-drive partitions are correctly detected... > > I tested gentoo-2008.0 on different computer, but again with sata-disk > and sata-dvd, and this time P35-chipset (Intel). No problem! It seems > to me the problem is in sata_nv module (nVidia chipset): it is loaded, > but detects only disks, no cd/dvd drives. Maybe compilled without > cd-filesystem support? > > FYI, I downloaded old good install-amd64-minimal-2007.0.iso, burned, > booted, and gues what? All works! I'm going to open bug about it... > > Jarry >
Please Include CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y into your configuration of the kernel as well as CONFIG_SATA_NV=y I believe the kernel docs indicate that the NVidia chipsets should be supported by SATA_AHCI. Also, check your grub config. This is a snippet of mine and I'm using SATA HD's on my laptop with an Nvidia chipset: root (hd0,0) # the device where your /boot resides kernel /linux-2.6.23-r8 root=/dev/sda2 # the device where / resides
