Gentoo install freezes on Promise fastrack100 onboard Raid

crux · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 10 Location: Mumbai, India

Gentoo install on a Gigabyte 7DXR motherboard with Promise Fastrack 100 onboard raid controller goes into a loop infineetely while checking partitions.

I have 2 40 GB IBM Hardisks attached to this

The harddisks are continuosly being probed (HD activity Light On)

can somebody shed some light

c_kuzmanic · Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2002 7:56 am Post subject:

Hi,

Make sure that you've properly configured your Kernel to use and support the fasttrack controller. This can be tricky, escpecially if you use the "Use special Fasttrak feature" in the fastrack config section of the kernel config. If you enable this option, the fastrak controller will override the bios-assigned ide-drive detection order and the drives will be detected and mounted in reverse, which may be out of sync with how you assigned them in your fstab.

c_kuzmanic · Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2002 9:51 am Post subject:

You didn't actually change the physical layout of your disks at some point, e.g. re-attach ide cables, move disks around etc. ?

crux · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 10 Location: Mumbai, India

why do you ask this ? ... i mean would it cause anything ??
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c_kuzmanic · Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2002 11:53 am Post subject:

If I understand correctly, you don't even get to the boot screen (grub) , right? If that is the case then I would assume that you have a problem on the hardware/bios level. If you changed your disk configuration make sure your ide cables are properly aligned and that the bios detects your drives.

crux · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 10 Location: Mumbai, India

well i dunnoe whaterever went wrong with this stuff ... but rebuilding the array via the bios seems to have solved the problem

now to see if grub can boot it ...

thanks a lot pal

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