Installing gentoo on SATA hard drive

zinzarin · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 4

I'm trying to install Gentoo, using the 1.4 Athlon XP Live CD, and it doesn't recognize my Serial ATA hard drive. This is the only hard drive in my system, so I need the install CD to recognize it. Is there some kind of instruction that I need to pass at the initial boot prompt to get it to recognize this hard drive? Something else I need to do that I'm not aware of? Here's the vitals on my hardware setup, in case they are important:

Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton Core)
ASUS A7N8X Mobo
2x 512 MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM
GeForce4 Ti4600 w/128 MB RAM
120 GB Maxtor DiamondMax SATA HD
52x CD-RW
16X DVD-ROM
Floppy

Thanks for any help!

Rob

Littlebear · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 4:22 am Post subject:

hi zinzarin,

I have very similar specs to you and i have just today installed Gentoo using the Athlon 1.4 CD. I used the "doataraid" switch at boot time but i not sure if this is really nessesary as i only have the 1 sata drive. The CD successfuly found the HDD and i have partitioned it and installed gentoo on to it. My only problem now is I cant get it to boot. It will boot into Windows XP using lilo but not Gentoo.

Hope this helps

Littlebear

atmel · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 12:47 am Post subject:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=76221&highlight=serial+ata

I also had to install on a serial ata drive as the only drive in a desktop.

I booted using smp kernel on the livecd and it worked fine. using mm-sources worked fine also.