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krawchyk n00b
Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Posts: 5
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:28 pm Post subject: Drive being recognized as hda? |
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First post, I'm coming from Arch and need a little help I'm using the latest autobuild, and have tried the stable installer and the livecd installer but they all recognize my disk as hda. Also, when formatting the partitions with ext3 (I'm planning on using ext4 though) it takes a very long time. My partitioning scheme is 32MB boot, 16GB root, 2GB swap, and 140GB ish for home. Using 'mk32fs -j -m 0 -L root /dev/hda2' (root) it takes about 5 mins to format for only 16GB and the home partition is still working, going on ten minutes.
Edit: Forgot to mention I'm using amd64, in case it matters
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 13047 Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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krawchyk n00b
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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sure, it'll take a minute though. I know for a fact it is recognized as sda on the Arch, Ubuntu and openSuse install cd/dvds
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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By the way, when you will boot with the LiveCD, pass this option at the prompt : rescue64
This will boot the 64 bits version of the kernel. |
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krawchyk n00b
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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systemrescuecd with 'rescue64' lists the hdd as sda... |
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
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krawchyk n00b
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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sweet thanks! |
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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No problem |
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krawchyk n00b
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, hate to be the bearer of bad news, but after finishing the installation per the handbook, the new kernel that I created with genkernel all also recognizes the hdd as an hda. Is there somehting in the config i need to change? |
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RedSquirrel Guru
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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That just means you're using the older drivers, which is not the end of the world. However, if you want to use the newer drivers, in the kernel config, under "Device Drivers", you can disable "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support" and choose appropriate settings under Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers. |
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