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Steve Dommett wrote: |
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> I'm sure the problem was the lack of partition table support in your |
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> custom kernel.... that was the only difference between the LiveCD dmesg |
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> and your custom kernel's. |
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But that was most likely already enabled in several kernels that I have |
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tried before. The first thing I tried, actually, was to install a kernel |
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derived from the LiveCD's kernel configuration. |
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Anyway, it might have been the case that I did something wrong in the |
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beginning which resulted in the LiveCD kernel config never being used. |
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In that case you're right! |
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>> SCSI device sdb: 285474816 512-byte hdwr sectors (146163 MB) |
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>> sdb: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled |
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>> sdb: asking for cache data failed |
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>> sdb: assuming drive cache: write through |
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>> sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 |
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>> SCSI device sda: 285474816 512-byte hdwr sectors (146163 MB) |
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>> sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled |
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>> sda: asking for cache data failed |
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>> sda: assuming drive cache: write through |
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>> sda: unknown partition table |
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> |
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> Perhaps the drive was partitioned using Window Logical Disk manager or |
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> somesuch? |
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It was partitioned using fdisk. |
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For any of you who has this problem in the future: |
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Try using the kernel configuration from the LiveCD. I did zcat |
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/proc/config.gz > /etc/kernel/kernel-config-x86-2.6.19-r5 (be sure to |
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name the configuration according to your kernel version). Run `genkernel |
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--menuconfig all` and be sure that the LSI drivers (Device Drivers > |
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SCSI device support > SCSI low-level drivers) are all compiled into |
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kernel. And also that EFI GUID Partition support is enabled (File |
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systems > Partition types). |
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I will report back if I notice anything more. |
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Thank you all for your help! |
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/P. |
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