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Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: |
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> Hi list, |
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> I have been trying for 5 days now to install a gentoo system on a |
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> nvidia mother board with fake raid, I already have a windows system on |
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> the machine that needs the raid and I want to install gentoo on it. |
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> I have followed instructions on |
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> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_with_NVRAID_using_dmraid |
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> I was succeeded on installing gentoo base system and grub :-), but, |
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> when I boot the systems ask for real_root /dev/mapper/nv_xxxx device |
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> I had try the hard way, open a shell when it ask for real_root and on |
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> /dev/mapper is just control. |
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> I had try with genkernel and on the same situation on /dev/mapper/ has |
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> control and my disk, but none of the partitions. |
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> I am so close of making this work, but is really frustrating get stuck |
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> in something like that for so long. |
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> Thanks for attention, Allan |
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Hi Allan, |
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I believe I had pretty much the same problem as you, finding that the |
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initial install went fine, but trying to boot with the new kernel (after |
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using genkernel with the dmraid option) failed. |
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I found the issue lay with Linux kernel 2.6.16 - I read a post somewhere |
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(which I have since lost track of) that hinted a bug/feature of 2.6.16 |
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meant some partitioning schemes would fail to be detected correctly |
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under NVRaid. The solution for me (so far) has been to run 2.6.15, at |
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least until 2.6.17 goes Gentoo-stable. In other words, I have masked 2.6.16. |
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Hope that helps, |
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Dave. |
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