Hi all folks, I am trying to install Gentoo 1,4 and encountered partition problem at start.
Connection. ATA-133 hard drive on ATA-66 controller. (Explanation on this setup. The motherboard of the PC for this test only supports ATA-33. I only have ATA-133 drive available and don't have ATA-133 controller. Therefore I use ATA-66 controller instead) TEST Gentoo 1.4, 2 CD version Atter starting CD#1 hit "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. To Get Your Own iCareHK.com Email Address? Go To www.iCareHK.com. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
