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Alkibiades n00b
Joined: 29 Mar 2007 Posts: 11
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:41 pm Post subject: Minimal CD won't detect VIA VT8237A Southbridge (solved) |
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Hello everyone,
today, I bought a notebook, with the following specifications:
- Intel Celeron M 420 1,60GHz, 1MB L2 cache (FSB 533MHz);
- Chipset: VIA VN896 + VT8237A
- 512 MB DDR2 667 MHz
- 80 GB SATA 150 GB/s harddisk
While booting the Minimal Install CD it complains of an unknown VIA Southbridge. It does boot, but I can't find my hard drive, so I can't install. Accidentally, I have the same VIA VT8237A Southbridge in my desktop, and I couldn't load my SATA drive there either. I at first suspected it was a mistake I made and did not bother, because I have a PATA disc there too, but later, after I had patched up my kernel, it was properly detected and I partitioned it after all. I googled and found this:
"Patch: 4145_vt8237a-sata.patch
From: https://bugs.gentoo.org/145690
Desc: Add support for VIA VT8237A SATA"
Nice. But how do I add that patch to the kernel on my Installer CD? I think I do need it; I never heard of a Gentoo install without any disk, though I have 1GB and 2GB USB 2.0 sticks whereupon I could perform an install, patch and thus access the HDD, but this does not look like the optimal solution.
Please, can anyone show me a way to either modify the installation CD to include the patch, or to add the patch after the CD has booted, or some other way to install Gentoo on my laptop? (By the way, I recently installed Gentoo on my desktop(Core 2 Duo, I used the -m64 CFLAG). It is completely set up, so SSH and networking are possible if needed.)
Thanks in advance,
yours, Co
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wynn Advocate
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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You could try using a LiveCD with a later kernel: you can install Gentoo from a Ubuntu LiveCD, for instance, or kernelOfTruth has LiveCDs for x86 and x86_64 (AMD64 or Intel EM64T) at Gentoo-based liveCD with JMicron support & more or Mirror. _________________ The avatar is jorma, a "duck" from "Elephants Dream": the film and all the production materials have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, see orange.blender.org for details. |
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Alkibiades n00b
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, wynn. I'm going to try.
Yours, Co |
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Alkibiades n00b
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, wynn,
it worked.
Yours, Co |
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