Sabayon Installation

[techieMoe]

The cdrw is being detected first not the dvdrw. You may have to disconnect the cdrw to force the boot from the dvdrw.

ed

That's what I suggested in the first place. If you unplug the extra drive, your PC will be forced to boot to the drive that's there.

[yannifan]

Hi
First of all thanks for all ur suggestions

Now the bad news. Nothing worked. Burning at slower speed or unplugging my CDRW drive. When i boot the dvd, it is not detected and says No bootable media. Ne other ideas???

Cheers

As i had posted, I did unplug my CDRW drive. Din work same error.

[techieMoe]

Yep first boot device priority is CD rOm in bios.

CDRW drive is primary slave, DVDRW drive is secondary master.

Should i try to make DVDRW drive Primary???

Yes, try swapping the jumper on the DVDRW to make it primary master and leave the CDRW drive unplugged, then make sure you reboot and set your BIOS to boot from the DVDRW.

[yannifan]

Hello

Have some good and bad news.
Good is tat i can finally boot the DVD
I made the DVDRW drive as primary slave and am able to boot the DVD.

Now the bad news. Im still not able to install
The problem is after the progress bar reaches almost completion(when i select livecd, gui installl, console install etc), the monitor goes blank and monitor led blinks. So it implies my monitor is not detected. When i press Ctrl+Alt+F1 , i get the console. When i try to start gdm(/usr/bin) or Xsession(/etc/X11), I get the foll error messages :
xterm xterror : cant open display %s
xterm : Display not setup
I also tried copying xorg.conf.legacy to xorg.conf and also tried configuring xorg.conf again. But no use.
I can get to console. Can i install from there, is there ne provision???

My monitor is Proview PA-456.

Cheers

[budman7]

Yes, when the dvd first boots, you should see a selection of various options.
Select to install from console there.

[yannifan]

I chose the console mode. I get the error "cannot fine sabayon text installer" and get a commad prompt. Donno how to proceed...