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PostPosted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:28 pm    Post subject: Drive being recognized as hda? Reply with quote

First post, I'm coming from Arch and need a little help 8) 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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PostPosted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi, can you try the latest SystemRescueCD here : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=85811&package_id=88964

and tell us if your hdd is still hda instead of sda ?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

systemrescuecd with 'rescue64' lists the hdd as sda...
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 11:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice, so install your Gentoo box with that LiveCD and you can also use the Funtoo Stages here : http://www.funtoo.org/linux/amd64/funtoo-amd64-2009.01.09/stage3-amd64-2009.01.09.tar.bz2
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 11:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sweet thanks!
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No problem :P
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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