SATA mapping problem with 2005.0 on HP Pavilion [SOLVED ]

indystef · Last edited by indystef on Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:50 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hello,

I tried to replace my Fedora pre-4 with Gentoo 2005.0 on my Pavilion, and ran into following problem:

The live CD (using gentoo-nofb) found my SATA harddrive correctly, and mapped it to /dev/sde (I have only that drive in the PC). Although I found it strange that the drive wasn't mapped to /dev/sda, I continued, and all worked fine.

However, in the chrooted environment, I could no longer find the hard drive

. It wansn't mapped to /dev/sde, or any other SCSII port. Nor could I see it as a regular ATA drive. Consequently, I could not install the boot loader (took me a bit of panicking and old tricks to get the machine boot into Windoze again). Any idea what went wrong, and how to make that work? :?:

Thank you,

Indystef

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 2:48 am Post subject:

Hi and welcome to the forums.

Before doing the chroot did you do

indystef · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:16 am Post subject:

Thank you. I'll give it another try tomorrow.
Is that something that doesn't happen often? If not, maybe the documentation should include that step, too.
And yes, I do have card readers ... thank you for shedding light on that, too.

Thanks again,

Indystef