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amandus · Apprentice Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 173 Location: Sweden

When I do fdisk there are no hda disk it nust be sda even if I have IDE disks but in fstab I must have hda and in grub why is it so?

I have sit three evenings after my job and now it was time to reboot, grub failes fdisk failes keymap not loaded network card not found.

I have follow the handbook completely. But it is not working any way :evil:

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John R. Graham · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:59 pm Post subject:

If grub fails, how can you get to the place where keymap and fdisk fails? :wink:

Seriously, without some specific error messages, it will be impossible to help you.

In answer to one of your questions, the new IDE kernel drivers make everything into /dev/sdx whether or not they're actually SATA or PATA drives. Thus, if you're performing a new install, you'll see /dev/sdx instead of /dev/hdx. It's possible to set up for the old kernel drivers, which is why you might need /dev/hdx in fstab, but the new install CDs all use the new drivers so, when actually mounting them, you'd see /dev/sdx.

Let's start with your earliest problem and get that sorted out. Error messages, please.

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amandus · Apprentice Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 173 Location: Sweden

in grub root=/dev/sda3 got kernel panic then I edit grub.conf changed sda3 to hda3 then it booted but could not activate swap then I changed fdisk swap from /dev/sda2 to /dev/hda2 and then the swap was activated and in /etc/conf.d/keymaps I edit and put in swedish keyboard sv-latin1 but it could not load it. my network card was not loaded I put in lspci but lspci was not found I don't now what to do now? Wiped it and start all over because I don´t know what to do.
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John R. Graham · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:26 pm Post subject:

lspci will not be installed on your computer unless you install it. However, it's part of the install CD. Once you get that booted again, you'll see it. Which install CD are you using?

Don't wipe & start over again without checking with us. Ususally there's a way to just back up & fix things.

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amandus · Apprentice Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 173 Location: Sweden

the latest
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John R. Graham · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:28 pm Post subject:

LiveCD or Minimal Install CD? Actual Gentoo CD or SystemRescueCD?

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amandus · Apprentice Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 173 Location: Sweden

minimal install CD
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cach0rr0 · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:42 pm Post subject:

/dev/hd* should no longer even exist

even if you use IDE drives, you should not use the drivers under CONFIG_IDE, but rather the PATA drivers under CONFIG_ATA (beneath the BDBMA section in menuconfig)

newer udev will not even make /dev/hd* device nodes. So even if everything else seems to want /dev/hd*, your system will ultimately not work.

-fstab should say /dev/sd*
-grub.conf should have root=/dev/sd*

not to be confused with the 'root (hd0,0)' setting in grub.

so first things first, you should get your kernel set such that everything will be using /dev/sd*
you do this by removing the "ATA/MFM/RLL Support" completely in menuconfig
and then enabling the right PATA driver under "Serial ATA (Prod) and Parallel ATA (Experimental) drivers" section

once the kernel is set up, fstab and grub.conf should both be set to use /dev/sd*
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amandus · Apprentice Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 173 Location: Sweden

I start from scratch tomorrow, and try to make it right this time

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Jaglover · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:05 pm Post subject:

Why from scratch if all you need to do is reconfigure kernel. Quite common job, have to do it every time you get a new piece of hardware or want to use a feature you didn't need before.
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cach0rr0 · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:11 pm Post subject:

amandus · Apprentice Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 173 Location: Sweden

What is good with grab one of Pappy's seeds?? Is it better than doing it by myself?
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John R. Graham · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:53 pm Post subject:

It's just a really good starting point. It gets all of the defaults right for a modern Gentoo installation. You still have to select your hardware so you will definitely still be "doing it yourself".

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amandus · Apprentice Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 173 Location: Sweden

I have downloaded pappy´s source and are now compiling the kernel
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