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Steven Stillaway wrote: |
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> It is a ATA66 IDE controller that requires a special kernel addition. |
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Ok, Generic PCI bus-master DMA support is turned of in the boot kernel. |
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I took a quick look into the drivers help and have one question. Do you need the |
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Boot off-board chipset first support to boot ? |
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I can send you a special kernel for your controller if you want. |
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achim~ |
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> This was a patch in the 2.2 kernels, but it is included as an option in |
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> the 2.4 kernels |
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> On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> > Steven Stillaway wrote: |
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> > > Hi, |
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> > > |
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> > > I am looking at installing gentoo. I want to try and install it on a |
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> > > machine with the root partition on a disk using the HPT366 controller. |
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> > > Do you have the drivers for this compiled into your default install |
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> > > kernel? |
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> > Is this an scsi controller? We compiled in scsi-support for |
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> > adaptec/symbios/ncr controllers. All other |
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> > controllers are avaliable as modules. |
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> > So typing modprob [HPT366 controler module] should work. |
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> > After you have configured everything as described in the install-guide, copy |
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> > the linux-sources-2.4.1-_pre8.tbz2 to your root disk. Chroot to that |
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> > partition, install the kernel package ( ">pkgmerge |
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> > linux-sources-2.4.1_pre8.tbz2"), |
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> > cd to /usr/src/linux , build and install your kernel. Leave the chrooted |
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> > environment and configure the bootmanager. |
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> > achim~ |
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> > > |
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> > > This would make life easy, but if not then I can do an existing install on |
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> > > that partition and then upgrade to gentoo. |
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> > > |
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> > > ----------------------- |
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> > > Steven Stillaway |
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> > > steve@×××××××××.net |
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> > > |
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