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From: Eddie Mihalow Jr <eamjr56@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and ICH9 Sata
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:07:21
Message-Id: 4943CFA4.8030104@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and ICH9 Sata by Leandro Sales
1 Leandro Sales wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > I'm trying to install Gentoo on a Intel xeon quad-core intel xeon
4 > computer. The SATA controller is ICH9, I then enabled ATA_PIIX in the
5 > kernel as built-in. The livecd boots properly and I can do fdisk
6 > /dev/sda, but after installing the system and reboot, the system says
7 > that /dev/sda2 is not recognized as a root partition. Any suggestion
8 > to solve this issue? Some helpful messages are:
9 >
10 > Driver 'sd' needs updating -- please use bus_type method
11 > ata_piix 000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 P1 P3 ]
12 > PCI: Unable to reverse I/O region #1:8@1f0 for device 000:00:1f.2
13 > ata_piix 000:00:1f.2: failed to request/iomap BARs for port0 (errno=-1)
14 > ata_piix 000:00:1f.5:: MAP [ P0 -- P1 -- ]
15 > scsi0: ata_piix
16 > scsi1: ata_piix
17 > no available native port
18 >
19 > Thank you,
20 > Leandro.
21 >
22 >
23 You need to enable ACHI and the SATA options in the kernel
24
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