Abit-BP6 hangs at Reboot

graham227 · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 4

Hi there all.

After reading about Gentoo and seeing it many times high up on the Distrowatch site I thought I would have a go at installing it and jump aboard as so many have done.

After a lot of hair pulling and reading messages in this forum, I managed to get to the stage where I get to the end of stage 3, setup lilo etc and reboot.
The Lilo Boot Menu comes up and I hit return at the boot: prompt.

But it stops dead at :-

Partition check:

I have read thru a few threads on here and I am still stuck.
Is there anyone else using a Abit-Bp6 that has got this to work and can kindly tell me how they got round this problem.

I am using:-

Gentoo 1.4 LivedCD (gentoo-grp-i686-1.4_rc2.iso)(525meg)
Abit BP6
2 x 500Mhz Celerons (Not overclocked)
394Meg ram
HighPoint HPT366 Bios V1.28

hde1 (ext2) boot 116 meg
hde2 swap 699meg
hde3 (ext2) 3 gig

Dont know if this is the reason?
But glancing up at the text a few lines up to where it has stopped one of the lines says:-
"HPT366: detected chipset, but driver not compiled in!"

geoffs · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 35 Location: Canada

take your harddrive off the crappy Highpoint. From my wonderful experience with the BP6 there isn't any benefit to using it!
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CAT

graham227 · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 4

Personally I have had no problems with the highpoint 366 under windows or other versions of linux, so maybe I am lucky.

Managed to sort out where I was going wrong in the end. I somehow missed the bit where it said add support for the hpt366 chipset into the kernel build.
So last time I built the kernel without support for that and many other things.. opps.
Anyways, Gentoo is up and running and works a treat.

Amazing what you miss when you are tired.