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Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes: |
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> And how does that comment help the OP? Without a link to the list |
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> archives, all it tells him is that he is not the first to experience this. |
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Well if the solution is so trivial, I wonder why the devs don't |
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put the fix into the installation liveCD? The error can be |
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due to a variety of problems. I have installed more than a dozen |
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gentoo systems over the last few years. Although not a whiz at Gentoo, |
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I do know the my way around. Figuring out which install media to use, |
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which kernel sources (stage 1-3) and such both from a liveCD install |
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is not difficult. Getting the LiveCD installation media to work, is always |
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a challenge, particularly with dual boot systems. |
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> Results 1 - 11 of 11 from archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user for "not a |
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I went to this site. I have not seen this site before. I do not see an |
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interface for searching historical postings. Some enlightenment on searching |
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out the postings would be appreciated. |
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That said. I went back to a minimal cd installation. During the fdisk portion |
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I noticed that none of the partitions have been marked as bootable (*). I used |
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fdisk to mark the /boot partition as bootable. I'm not sure this is required, |
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but the handbook for amd64 says to toggle the boot flag, so I did. |
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Several postings have suggested that the correct device driver for the sata |
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controller is not in the (stage 3) kernel (this make sense). Why should an HP |
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pavilion 9000z be support. I not sure that HP sells more than a few million of |
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these laptops per year...... |
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Anywhy, even the handbook tells me to use a stage3 install tarball. HOwever, a |
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stage 3 does not give one the opportunity to build a custom kernel. So my |
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understanding is I'm going to have to use a stage 1 tarball, which is not |
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supported any more? |
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It has been said that I should use a stage one install tarball and build a |
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custom kernel. I'm just uncertain which installation media to use |
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and the guide for building a custom kernel (using lspci and lshw to discern |
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the actual sata controller), thus enabling the correct sata driver. |
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Any light on building a custom kernel, during the installation process, is most |
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welcome. Minimal, liveCD or ??? |
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It has been almost a year since I've installed a dual boot laptop and |
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ever time it's an adventure.....After this HP, I have a Dell lpatop |
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and a Sony Viao to set up. |
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