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Harrold
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 Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 9:44 am Post subject: Serial ATA and Gentoo |
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| Is it possible to boot the gentoo live-cd with an serial ata driver from SIS? I have only this HD and I want to install gentoo, but I can't because the 2004.1 does not have a serial ATA driver. |
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GentooBox
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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try booting the livecd with "smp" and see if it finds your SATA controller.
i've installed gentoo on my via SATA controller with gentoo's livecd 2004.0
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furkan
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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i have serial ata too but smp does not work for me i use
smp-nofb pnpbios=off
for booting 
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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I think this SATA driver is very new, and is not (yet) included on the Gentoo CD
| Code: | [*] Serial ATA (SATA) support
<*> SiS 964/180 SATA support |
Your best bet is to do a quickie Gentoo installation on a regular IDE harddrive, compile a kernel with the correct driver, then chroot from there to do the "real" installation onto your SATA drive. |
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furkan
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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so i installed gentoo on my serial ata with gentoo livecd 2004.0 with booting
smp-nofb pnpbios=off
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