Sata drive

Pingy · n00b Joined: 21 Feb 2008 Posts: 32 Location: /dev/pro1

Hitachi HDT72503

Were do i find it in the kernel?

I have been looking but i cannot find it for the death of me

and i'm pretty sure that this is the reason it will not boot*checks again*
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eccerr0r · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:16 am Post subject:

I'm confused by your question...

It's a standard SATA disk? It should show up as /dev/sdXX depending on what other disks you have. If you have lsscsi installed, you can use that to find it.

If you mean Linux can't find the hard drive, then likely you don't have your SATA driver enabled. This depends on what hardware you have...

If you're trying to bootstrap using a 2007.0 minimal install and can't find your hard drive, you should look into trying a 2008.0 pre-release and see if that works any better.
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What am I supposed watching?

Pingy · n00b Joined: 21 Feb 2008 Posts: 32 Location: /dev/pro1

well, i just tried to pull together the issues, this happened when i installed it on my laptop, it was my kernel, just after i did a genkernel it stopped

but i am booting to a kernel panic, basically "cant set root drive to /dev/sda4" or something like that, i dont know how to show everyone so i thought i would try and ease up the question and ask were i could find sata drivers for my hdd which i think is what would cause that, correct?
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stardotstar · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:31 am Post subject:

in kernel config you must have the correct support built in as you suspect (and BIOS correctly enabling SATA and AHCI - if desired - you may find that you can choose between legacy ATA mode (PATA) and SATA mode for one or more pairs of SATA connectors on the motherboard:

Not sure what your config should be but check this to start with (and I am far from expert at this - but having just been through the mill on SATA with my Mobo):

enable the block layer
&
device- drivers---> Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers --->
AHCI SATA support
Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3 PATA/SATA support
Generic ATA support
and then whatever actual chipset your enabled SATA drive is on - I use JMicron and the Intel AHCI ICH9 PCI chipsets with my motherboard
it all depends a bit on your mobo and drive - I found this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2185087

what about trying to boot with the system rescue cd and see what lspci has to say about your drive

get the iso from sysresccd.org - it has a very recent gentoo autodetecting kernel that is a godsend in these kinds of cases.

HTH
will
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cyrillic · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject: Re: Sata drive

Pingy · n00b Joined: 21 Feb 2008 Posts: 32 Location: /dev/pro1

heh, i got it, i used the method that the last reply stated, now i am having issues with emerge gnome

could anyone give me the required use flags for gnome(just emerge gnome)
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