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Hi, I have a IBM thinkpad laptop, which already has a knoppix/winxp dual boot on it, but I was hoping to get gentoo installed. It's a pain to do it all, and reinstall all the packages from scratch, so I saw phaeronix and decided to try it. When booting off the live cd, i get an error when it tries to run "hdparm" on hdc (cdrom drive). How can i get past this error, or maybe disable hdparm on boot. Any suggestions?
Is the error actually
Is the error actually critical? That is does it hang the boot process or does it continue?
You can disable this feature by appending "ide=nodma" to the boot command.
So your boot command will look like this :
"linux ide=nodma"
This should prevent the autoconfig script from running hdparm and hopefully fix your problem.
Thanks gentoo and specially wolf31o2 for the wonderful basis of the autoconfig script.