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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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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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