kernel hangs scanning ide drives during install

ashsama · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 12

Trying to install latest gentoo, gentoo boots the kernel but computer hangs
after scanning hde and hdf (never scans to hdg+hdh which is also installed)
ide controller is a promise ultra 100 with 4 drives attached, cdrom attached to hdb, and I want to install gentoo on sda.
Tried all options under f2 & f3.
No error messages, everything just stops and kbd is unresponsive.
Computer is a bx chipseted intel p3 and I've used linux with 2.2.x kernels before without problems.
Anyone experienced this behaviour?

Morphix · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 35

Your going to have a tough time installing to sda, since you have no SCSI devices. You can reverse your hdd order by passing ide=reverse to the kernel, (if supported on the liveCD kernel). This will make hde become hda, and not forgetting to add this to your kernel line in grub.conf or lilo.conf when you get to this step. As for the hanging, unplug the other three drives until you have installed gentoo on hda. Then continue to install them one by one until they are all connected.

ashsama · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 12

Sure I got a scsi device, the drive I want to install gentoo on :-)

Unplugging the devices is not an option either, it's a long story :-)

I'm just wondering if I'm the only one experiencing this...

mutex · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 146

I'm having the same problem.