Thanks for the replies, and sorry for the confusion... Brett : the issue is actually step 6 of the installation where I cannot see my sata drives to partition, etc.
So to be clear here it is : I have a Biostar IDEQ 200N with a VIA VT6420 SATA RAID controller in it. the machine has two, completely blank, new sata drives plugged into channel0 and channel1 of SATA controller and a dvd player/recorder. I stick in the live-cd, it boots nicely (looks great btw), and I end up at root's bash prompt. Networking working great, things look good. At this point, according to step 6 of the install (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap6), I need to fdisk to create partitions. Ahhhh the rub, I don't have any hard-drives showing up in /dev. I've got /dev/hdc -> dvd player, but that's it. My fairly safe guess is that the VIA VT6420 SATA RAID controller isn't 'detected' and thus, neither are my drives. My googling/foruming/MI has indicated that there are other kernels which *might* detect this controller. But... how to use? If I cannot have access to the drives at all, what--if anything--can I do to actually use an alternative kernel (i.e. one that's not on the liveCD)? I thought about the knopplix (sp?) boot disk to see if it detected the controller (people seem to indicate that it detects alot of hardware), but then I wouldn't know what to do if it did :) Now, as I write this, one additional thing comes to mind: If I choose to boot the smp-nofb kernel, I get an additional message during bootup. I'm not at the computer now, so I cannot even confirm that it is at all related, but I recall it saying something about something-something IRQ 7 something-something (that's embarrassing, but that's all I can recall). Thanks in advance everyone! daniel On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:27, brett holcomb wrote: > During the install you are given a chance to build a > kernel. You'll have to do an ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~arch" > emerge kernel you want. Check portage for the kernels > available. > > On 13 Oct 2003 13:13:42 -0700 > Daniel Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 12:50, mikpolniak wrote: > > > >I will definitely look at that kernel. So the question > >is... > > > >How do I get to use that kernel during the initial > >installation? The > >live-cd has some number of kernels, if none of them > >support the sata > >controller, how do I go about using another one for the > >initial > >installation? > > > >Thanks for your help! > >daniel > > > > > > > >-- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Daniel Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
