Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 2005.1 on an SATA drive

[Mark Knecht]

On 9/5/05, Jamie Dobbs <jamie.dobbs@×××××××××.nz> wrote:
> I have been trying to install Gentoo 2005.1 on an SATA drive connected to
> a Silicon Image chipset controller. The SATA interface and drive are found
> at boot, I then create 3 parititions:
>
> /dev/sda1 32M  /boot
> /dev/sda2 512M
> /dev/sda3 40GB /
>
> Then I go through the usual process of untarring a stage3 tarball, copying
> over a portage snapshot and distfiles etc. all goes well, the files are on
> the partitions and all looks fine.
>
> The issue occurs when I try to chroot into the new environment when
> issuing the command chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash I get the error
> "segmentation fault" and cannot chroot into the new environment.
>
> Is there likely to be something that I am doing wrong? Is there another
> set of instructions specifically for an SATA install?

No, everything is normal. I've brought up one this wekk and a few
before. No problems other than finding the drive. You've already done
that.

>
> I had issues getting the drive to work in Windows as well until I removed
> by Pinannacle PCTV card after which Windows found the drive with no
> problems - could it perhaps be that this caused a hardware conflict that
> caused the above error? I haven't had the time to try the install again
> since removing the PCTV card but would like to know if there is anything
> different I need to do to install Gentoo to an SATA disk.

Nothing at all different.

To me this sounds more like some driver having trouble after the
chroot command. My machines are ATI and Via chipsets with SATA built
in. You are using the Silicon Image chips. Maybe that driver has some
issues?

This is the kernel on the 2005.1 CD, correct? That's a pretty new kernel.

- Mark

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