Trouble finding SATA-disk with 2004.0 live cd

C.M

I've just put together my MSI K8T NEO and had planned to use the VIA 8237 chip with my Seagate SATA-disk. The 2004.0 universal live-cd can't find the disk, so I'm not sure what I have to do to get it working. Are there some better live-cds to use? Do I have to use a 2.6 kernel?

The SATA-disk is found in BIOS as Serial_Ch1 master and the number shown matches with the disk. My question is: What live-cd can find and partition the harddisk?

/C.M

Hmm.. Sorry. Guess I should have posted it in the "Installing Gentoo" forum.

Ironwalker · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 23

just boot from 2.6 live-cd in experimental folder and it will see the sata drives and allow for fdisk.
Once installed just update your install and you will be up to date:)

C.M · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:31 pm Post subject:

Thanks :')

Was thinking of using the 2.6 kernel anyway.

C.M · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:02 pm Post subject:

Hmm.. Didn't work :evil:

. I just burned an experimental image called gentoo-2004.0-x86-20040204.iso. It booted fine, but still couldn't find the SATA-disk. Highly annoying.. Guess I'll get a lot of coasters before I can make an install. :cry:

noticed that it was a 2.4.24-xfs kernel on that image. Is there any new 2.6 live-cd out? The only one I can find on the mirrors is livecd-2.6_11-29-2003.iso wich is damn old.

Ironwalker · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 23

thats because it use the 2.4 kernel
hence why i said the 2.6 live-cd in the experimental folder under x86

Ironwalker · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 23

dont let "experimental' scare ya....its an excellent live-cd:)

C.M · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:12 pm Post subject:

Hehe.. Thanks. I feel like the whole machine is experimental. Just wondered if there were no newer live-cd with 2.6 kernel than from november lasy year. I'll give that one a try anyway

Ironwalker · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 23

you just wanted the live cd to find the drives so you can fdisk...when you install,you can put whatever ya want on it and when your done update everything and you will be ahead of the game with a modern distro:)

good luck

C.M · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:48 pm Post subject:

Finally the 2.6 live-cd did work. But unfortunally I couldn't use mkreiserfs. I created the partitions and had no problems with mke2fs on the boot, but when running mkreiserfs /def/hdg3 I get:

C.M · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:18 pm Post subject:

Sorry I have to correct myself all the time. This fixed it: