FDisk problems with AMD64

99ssbpTeg · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 4

I am trying to load GenToo 2004.2 on my Athlon 64-bit machine. I used the live install cd and get the the root and try to run fdisk, however the drives cannot be found. I have windows xp loaded on one drive and Red Hat loaded on the other. Both drives are recognized just fine in the bios and show up as hda and hdb in dmesg. Whenever I try to run fdisk, I get an "Unable to upen /dev/hda" error.

tntgentoo · n00b Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 31

I am having exactly the same problem. This affects hdparm as well.

I can boot into the normal 2004.2 livecd and everything works, but the amd64 bit version does not.

tntgentoo · n00b Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 31

a quick check of dmesg show that the disks are present

tntgentoo · n00b Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 31

I found the solution in the thread:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=202147

You have to issue a modprobe ide-disk

99ssbpTeg · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 4

that part works now, thanks.....now if i can just get my LAN to work.

tntgentoo · n00b Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 31

What kind of network card are you using? Have you tried to modprobe it's driver?