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herbert_vaucanson
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 Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 3:46 pm Post subject: LiveCD Fdisk gives unexpected message |
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Hi all,
I am a newbie trying to install Gentoo Linux on my PC.
After the LiveCD boots, I try fdisk on my drives, obtaining
a couple of inexpected results:
1) it does not recognise the partition list on hda (which
happens to contain 2 FAT32 and a NTFS, with
Win98SE on the first and WinXP on the last); it says that
the partition list is unreadable-unknown
2) it gives odd readings on both my 2 harddisks (the second
one bought for Linux and an extra NTFS partition):
634MB (77 cylinders) and 2199GB (267347 cylinders) instead of 30GB and 80GB.
I have an A7V VIA KT133 mobo and two Hitachi IBM harddisks, one ATA100 30GB and one ATA133 80GB, on the same controller.
I really hope somebody can enlighten me... |
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Maedhros
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herbert_vaucanson
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Thanks, the thread you mention seems on the spot - but in my 2004.2 universal LiveCD modprobe is not able to find the ide-disk module! I have looked in the kernel/drivers/ide folder and in the subfolders, to no avail.
I feel a little dumb... what am I missing?  |
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Maedhros
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Oh ok... I think that might be just for amd64 livecds then. This thread might help:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=203998
Especially this command may be useful:
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herbert_vaucanson
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| Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks! This time the problem is solved 
I happen to have my ATAPI devices on hda and hdb, while my UltraATA100 devices on hde and hdf. I guess that the UltraATA33/66 connector on my mobo would be associated hdc and hdd.
It seems that the hardware detector on the LiveCD simply equates all ATA devices (including ATAPI and UltraATA) to hd_.
It would be interesting to know if this is a standard fenomenon or only related to mobo-integrated controllers from 2000, when UltraATA100 became mainstream.
About the SCSI suggestion I picked in the thread: when ATA100 first came out, the so-capable drives were recognized as SCSI drives (!) by operative systems like Win98 and Win2000, probably for compatibility reasons (how would you describe an ATA100 controller to an operative system totally oblivious of the concept?). I do not recall if the bios helped in this voodoo too...
Again, many thanks for your help! I still have some problems in navigating the threads myself: slow connection + newbie  but I will learn |
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