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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Support to some PATA controllers in instalation cd
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:12:26
Message-Id: 479B69ED.7080909@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-releng] Support to some PATA controllers in instalation cd by Igor Cavalcante
1 Igor Cavalcante wrote:
2 > I have a motherboard dq35jo of intel and this has a controller PATA
3 > Marvell. I had to install the gentoo from a live cd of ubuntu because
4 > the kernel that comes with the CD installation of the current gentoo
5 > (2007.0) not support my controller (Marvel). I interesting that the CD
6 > to install the new version of gentoo has up support some controllers PATA.
7
8 It's quite possible that the kernel used in the 2007.0 media (2.6.19) just
9 didn't have support for this controller. Please file a bug for this. Include the
10 kernel CONFIG option for the controller, so we know exactly what we need to enable.
11
12 Also, the following URL seems to be relevant:
13
14 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-installation-40/cddvd-not-found-584582/page2.html#post2983385
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17 Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
18 Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator
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Re: [gentoo-releng] Support to some PATA controllers in instalation cd Igor Cavalcante <igor@××××××××××××××.br>