On Monday 13 October 2003 05:05 pm, Daniel Wood wrote: > 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
assuming Knoppix did boot and see the sata drives, uname will tell you the kernel vision and cat /proc/config will show you the config of the running kernel. Seems to me to be worth a shot. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
