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Paul Kölle wrote: |
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>Hi folks, |
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>maybe someone hit the same roadblock an could give some insight. |
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>The situation: |
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>I'm trying to setup gentoo 2005.0 on a new p4 with 2Gig and 4 SATA |
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>disks. The disks are on an Adaptec 8110x which uses (unsupported) |
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>Marvell chips. So far so bad. |
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>I managed to find a (proprietary) driver and built it on another gentoo |
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>box, my plan was to boot the box, then load the driver manually to setup |
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>disks, install the system and build a new kernel with the driver |
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>included. The problem is, regardless what I put on the bootprompt, it |
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>ends up with: |
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>"Scanning for volume groups..." |
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> ....takes forever |
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>"Activating volume groups..." |
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>....hangs mostly... |
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>The simple truth is: There are no volume groups, there are no block |
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>devices at this point and I don't want the installer to bother at all. |
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>How can I do this? |
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I assume you are using genkernel to build your initrd? |
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Perhaps you can try telling it NOT to include lvm? actually specifying |
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to NOT include lvm isn't possible, but rather than: |
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genkernel --menuconfig all you could try just the initrd on itself with: |
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genkernel initrd (include "--dmraid" if you are using lsr). |
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alternately, try bypassing the initrd (assuming all required sata |
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drivers are statically compiled into the kernel). |
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-c |
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>thanks |
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> Paul |
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>BTW: I did my homework, I ordered another board but after the submission |
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>the shop asked if it would be OK to ship an "equivalent" one since the |
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>original was not in stock. Well... |
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