I have a Dell PowerEdge 1300 that has uses an aic7xxx scsi controller and
the live cd is choking on it. There are several posts on the Gentoo forums
from people having similar problems. One of the followups talks about
starting a redhat install and letting it detect all the hardware and then
downloading the stage1 tarball and continuing on with the regular gentoo
install. Does this sound legit and if so could someone explain how it
works?