Hi folks,

maybe someone hit the same roadblock an could give some insight.

The situation:
I'm trying to setup gentoo 2005.0 on a new p4 with 2Gig and 4 SATA
disks. The disks are on an Adaptec 8110x which uses (unsupported)
Marvell chips. So far so bad.

I managed to find a (proprietary) driver and built it on another gentoo
box, my plan was to boot the box, then load the driver manually to setup
disks, install the system and build a new kernel with the driver
included. The problem is, regardless what I put on the bootprompt, it
ends up with:

"Scanning for volume groups..."
 ....takes forever

"Activating volume groups..."
....hangs mostly...

The simple truth is: There are no volume groups, there are no block
devices at this point and I don't want the installer to bother at all.
How can I do this?

thanks
 Paul

BTW: I did my homework, I ordered another board but after the submission
the shop asked if it would be OK to ship an "equivalent" one since the
original was not in stock. Well...

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