Hi folks, maybe someone hit the same roadblock an could give some insight.
The situation: I'm trying to setup gentoo 2005.0 on a new p4 with 2Gig and 4 SATA disks. The disks are on an Adaptec 8110x which uses (unsupported) Marvell chips. So far so bad. I managed to find a (proprietary) driver and built it on another gentoo box, my plan was to boot the box, then load the driver manually to setup disks, install the system and build a new kernel with the driver included. The problem is, regardless what I put on the bootprompt, it ends up with: "Scanning for volume groups..." ....takes forever "Activating volume groups..." ....hangs mostly... The simple truth is: There are no volume groups, there are no block devices at this point and I don't want the installer to bother at all. How can I do this? thanks Paul BTW: I did my homework, I ordered another board but after the submission the shop asked if it would be OK to ship an "equivalent" one since the original was not in stock. Well... -- [email protected] mailing list
