Installing Gentoo onto VIA SATA

ferrarif5 · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 11:44 am Post subject: Installing Gentoo onto VIA SATA

Hi, I tried using the installation guide and reading the forums but I can't find anything that has helped me. :cry:

I am trying to install Gentoo on my SATA HDD (see system spec in sig) but it doesn't seem to detect the drive at all, I got Windows 2000 running on the drive with another two NTFS partitions that I use to install programs and keep my stuff on.

I have 23gb totally untouched space on my HDD ready for Gentoo but since Gentoo doesn't seem to find my HDD I can't install it.

Can anyone help us please?
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ferrarif5 · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 9:22 pm Post subject:

No one got any ideas ?? I really want to install Gentoo
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cyrillic · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 12:16 am Post subject:

You may be in business soon. I was browsing www.kernel.org and noticed a patch for 2.6.0 was submitted a couple of days ago to add support for your VIA 8237 SATA controller :
http://www.kernel.org/diff/diffview.cgi?file=%2Fpub%2Flinux%2Fkernel%2Fv2.5%2Ftesting%2Fcset%2Fcset-B.Zolnierkiewicz%40elka.pw.edu.pl%5Btorvalds%5D%7CChangeSet%7C20030903171408%7C05745.txt;z=all

ferrarif5 · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 6:41 am Post subject:

Excellent, Thanks alot
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