Hi Bill, This PC, a RAID-0 box for test use, has a motherboard which only supports ATA-33 hard drive. I have no ATA-33 hard drive and only have ATA-133 hard drive available for test. The problem is with the ATA-133 RAID controller installed on booting the PC the BIOS detects it. I have searched around on the BIOS pages to disable it without result.
ATA-133 hard drive does not work on the old motherboard. I have tested it. I have no ATA-133 controller available therefore I got a ATA-66 controller from stock instead and continued testing installation of Gentoo 1.4. However I encountered another problem as follows; At start hitting "Enter" to start standard kernel cdimage root # fdisk -l Disk /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 40.0 GB 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Devices /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 Boot # Start 1 End 4866 Block 39086113+ Id c System Win95 FAT32 (LBA) cdimage root # fdisk /dev/hda Unable to open /dev/hda cdimage root # fdisk /dev/hdc You will not be able to write the partition table. Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new Dos disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. Warning: invalid flag 0x000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdc: 476 MB, 476618752 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 57 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes ........ .... I supposed /dev/hdc is the RAM disk. Why /dev/hda could not be opened? (Remark: The ATA-133 hard drive has been previously formatted in DOS) Kindly advise how to proceed. Thanks in advance. B.Regards Stephen P.S. I also tested "gentoo md" and the result was the same. On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 22:44, William Kenworthy wrote: > USE is just one of many variables in make.conf. The one I was referring > to is CFLAGS. Also check the CHOST flag is correct. > > Is there a reason why you are trying to use the raid function on this > card - my understanding its purely a remapping under the control of a > driver in windows and in linux, software raid is more efficient and > flexible? I am using raid0 on the motherboard ports, and when I set > this up (~ two years ago under mandrake on another MB and still going > under gentoo) and it was reccomended then to run (it was a hpt > controller) any winraid card in ide mode and use softraid. Use the > silraid, and you lose that option, and as far as I can see, gain nothing > unless the disks are required to be readable under a dual boot win/lin > system. > > BillK > > On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 20:37, Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > > > Thanks for your response/ > > > > On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 15:50, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > possible due to wrong choice of settings for processor in make.conf. > > > > Sorry I could not catch your advice. Whether you meant that I have to > > edit "make.conf" > > > > > > According to "10. Setting Gentoo optimizations (make.conf)" of the > > installation manual; > > > > "...... generally, the defaults (an empty or unset USE variable) are > > fine. More information....." > > > > therefore I left the file untouched. > > > > Kindly advise what I have to edit? I am running this test on a Intel > > PII PC with software RAID-0. Gentoo could not detect the RAID > > controller. I continued the test on installing Gentoo 1.4 on the drive > > connected to bus0 > > > > B.Regards > > Stephen > > > > > > > > > > BillK > > > > > > On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 10:11, Collins Richey wrote: > > > > On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 09:49:49 +0800 > > > > Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Now when came to - stages tarballs and chroot (2 CD version) > > > > > -Extraction of tarballs - stage2 - without complaint > > > > > > > > > > cdimage gentoo # mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc (without > > > > > complaint) cdimage gentoo # cp /etc/resolv.conf > > > > > /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf (without complaint) cdimage gentoo # > > > > > chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash Illegal instruction > > > > > > > > > > > > > Almost always this means that you have installed binary code (the stage > > > > 2) that is not compiled for your computer, example: Pentium4 code for an > > > > AMD computer. > > > > > > To Get Your Own iCareHK.com Email Address? Go To www.iCareHK.com. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
