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endpoint n00b
Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 11
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 3:42 am Post subject: SATA drive on Asus a7v8x with fasttrack 20378 |
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Hi,
I'm a linux newbie but I'm trying to install Gentoo 1.4 on an Asus a7v8x with a promise pdc20378 raid controller and a seagate 120Gb SATA hard drive. I don't want to enable raid, just use the single SATA drive. I have the opensource-b15.zip drivers but I'm having trouble compiling them and installing the module. I had hoped to recognize the SATA drive from a livecd boot (after installing the module) and install directly to the drive. Starting from the athlon xp gentoo livecd I tried to install the source tree at /usr/src/... Obviously didn't work as the cd is read only. Then I tried installing gentoo to another PATA hd as per the instructions, chroot to the new install, emerge -k gentoo-sources and compile the module. The module compiled but I can't install it with into the livecd kernel. The livecd kernel version is 2.4.21-gss but the emerged kernel source tree is 2.4.20-gentoo-r8. Is there a way to install the 2.4.21-gss kernel source to my Pata hd so I can compile the proper module for the live cd? Should I do the complete install on my PATA hd, compile the module and install another Gentoo from that drive to the SATA drive? Anyone have advice or a better way? |
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(x) n00b
Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 11 Location: Poland
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endpoint n00b
Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 11
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks,
I'm trying it now! |
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deprecated Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 118 Location: Madison, WI
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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Hello,
I have the same raid controller as you, but different mainboard. Anyways, I succeeded in installing Gentoo using the "install on PATA then move over to the SATA drive" method. The only difference was that I used a 2.6.0 kernel as my base kernel, since I had heard that SATA support was merged into the 2.6.0-test9 kernel. As it turns out, someone forgot the entry for the 20378 card in the lookup table so you need 2.6.0-bk11 or better for this to work. In other words, until test10 comes out, for the 2.6.0 kernel to work you'd need to get the source from kernel.org.
And I have no idea which 2.4 series kernels support this, or how to compile that driver.
Good luck!
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sebgarden Guru
Joined: 21 Dec 2002 Posts: 353
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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Hi to all,
I also have one sata drive on which I directly want to install Gentoo but I got a kernel panic while booting on the experimental 2.6 livecd (11032003) with the nofb kernel:
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PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x5f3a, dseg 0xf0000
general protection fault: 0000 [#1]
CPU: 0
EIP: 0098:[<00002b70>] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010083
EIP is at 0x2b70
eax: 000023d6 ebx: 0000007a ecx: 00010000 edx: 00000001
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Call trace:
Code: Bad EIP value
<0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
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Gentoo 1.4 Livecd #1 for P4 with the "nofb" kernel: booting process hangs on after detecting the harddrive:
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hda: Plextor DVD burner
hde: HDS722512VLSA80, ATA disk drive
blk: queue c03bc508, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
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Moreover, when I run the memtest at the boot prompt, this one hang at 98%, the beginning of test #7 (moving 0 and 1 with no cache). So that I'm wondering if anything in my hardware could be wrong.
Any idea ?
Cheers,
Sébastien.
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Intel Pentium IV 2.8 GHz 800MHz (BOX)
Asus P4P800 Deluxe i865PE S478
2x512MB Infineonchip CL2.5 DDRAM PC333
ATI Radeon 9600Pro (Original ATI) 8xAGP TV/DVI
120GB Hitachi Deskstar-7K250 VLSA80 SATA 7200rpm
Plextor (B) PX-708A |
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sebgarden Guru
Joined: 21 Dec 2002 Posts: 353
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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Knoppix method: I booted the 11142003 knoppix cd (with fbdev, not with xfree86 because my sony Trinitron Multiscan 200sx screen turned blank after starting X)
It's working until now. I'm partitionning the harddisk.
Seb |
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