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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:18 am    Post subject: Can't boot from SATA HD? Reply with quote

Hello.

I want to install Gentoo onto a new 160GB Serial ATA HD. After the first time I successfully completed the installation using mostly default options, I rebooted, but the computer claimed it could find no bootable media. I attempted to install a Mandriva distribution of Linux, and ran into the same problem. I then tried Gentoo again, this time using LILO instead of GRUB, and again got a message to the effect of "No bootable media found." Both installers seemed to be able to recognize the disk during the partitioning stage of the installation, and the BIOS settings manager lists the harddrive everywhere it should - including the boot device priority list. Can anyone point me to what may be wrong?

I realize this may not be the best forum for such a question (it seemed to be more of a hardware problem than an actual installation problem, which is why I posted it here instead of the "Installing Gentoo" forum) but I thought I may find advice. If anyone thinks they can help if I provide more information or run some experements, I'm eager to do so. If anybody knows a forum more suited to this sort of topic, I'd like to know about it. Incidental advice such as "You're probably not experienced enough to use Gentoo Linux" is also appreciated, if you can suggest an easier Linux distro.

Any educated guess at the problem(s) would be appreciated - this is both the first computer I've built from a barebones kit and the first time I've tried to install Linux, so there's very few ways I couldn't screw it up.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most likely you forgot to install the required kernel module for your SATA controller. Check under:

Device Drivers --> SCSI device support --> SCSI low-level drivers

and select the SATA controller that is relevant for you. Make sure you also have Serial ATA (SATA) Support selected here, also.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mno, thank you for your interest and your prompt reply.

As best I can tell, I'm currently installing all of the kernel modules that have "sata" in their name. I'm using the Gentoo 2006.0 LiveCD because I'm having trouble configuring the network with the minimal install CD (oddly enough, the liveCD can detect the network automatically with no trouble, but the minimal CD can't). In the GUI installer, during the Pre-Install Config stage, under the Misc. tab, the Loaded Modules list includes 12 entries starting with SATA. In the /lib/modules/2.6.15-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/scsi/ directory, I found 12 .ko files with the same names. Are these the SATA controllers mno mentioned? If not, where should I look to find them? Is there an efficient way to determine which controller I need? Do I need to be using the minimal install CD?

As for the second suggestion - the Serial ATA (SATA) Support one - I didn't see any options to that effect. I didn't deliberately pass -nosata to the kernel, so if it's not a default flag, it's probably not the problem. Is it one of the USE flags for the make.conf?

Again, thank you for your assistance.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most likely the reason you're not able to get the network up and running with the Minimal CD is because it doesn't contain the necessary network driver. The Live CD one probably does. It seems you have a lot of hardware that doesn't come with out-of-the-box drivers, which will make your life a bit more difficult up front but not too badly in the long run.

For the HDs:

Since you're using the GUI install, the options will be completely in different places than what I mentioned before. My response was assuming you were doing the kernel build through make menuconfig, which you aren't. I've never done the GUI install that way, so I can't comment on where what is. However: it still seems that somewhere you're missing the driver for your SATA controller in the kernel image. Do you know what your SATA controller is? This should be somewhere in the manual for your motherboard/system. You can also try pasting the output here of lspci.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wait, another question... what GUI are you using to install? Last I heard, there was no real install GUI for Gentoo... although I've not used the Live CD in ages, either.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm using the Gentoo 2006.0 LiveCD available from the Get Gentoo! tab on the website. I had originally chosen this because it seemed to be the only installer covered by the networkless installation manual. After the first time the boot failed, I tried to use the minimal install CD, but abandoned that because of the aforementioned networking problem.

The LiveCD has two installer options on the desktop, a terminal and a GUI frontend. I tried going through the terminal as well, but it seems that the frontend has all of the functionality of the terminal, and is more stable.

Perhaps this request should go under the Installing Gentoo forums after all?

Thank you for your assistance, mno.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not familiar with the GUI install at all... maybe someone who knows it better would be able to recommend to you where to go to include the necessary drivers/modules. The other thing that could be the issue is that one of those 12 modules you found is the right one, but it's not being loaded. To check this, chroot into your installed environment, and see what is inside /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 - at least one of those 12 modules (if not all) should be listed there. Most likely all 12 of them are listed. I think that could also be the issue - where one interferes with some other one. Do you know what your SATA controller is? Look it up in your manual for the motherboard/system.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If I understand the documentation correctly, I have it connected to one of the ICH7-R/ICH7-DH SATA interfaces. None of the modules on the CD seem to have anything in common with that name.

It also offers a discrete SATA interface which uses a Sil 3114 controller, which seems to match some of the kernel modules. It claims that these aren't capable of single-disk configurations, so I hadn't tried them before, but I might as well try - the HD's blank, so I don't have any data on it I can lose.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is a module for Intel PIIX/ICH7 in the 2.6.17 kernel. It may be called piix or something along those lines.

Can you copy and paste the output of
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dmesg

here from within Live CD? (If need be, hit Alt+F2 or F3 to go to a different console to go around the GUI).
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's what I've got:
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gentoo@livecd ~ $ dmesg
Linux version 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 (root@gravity) (gcc version 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4-r 1, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.8)) #1 SMP Mon Feb 13 20:23:47 UTC 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009e800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007edce000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000007edce000 - 000000007eed0000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000007eed0000 - 000000007fea2000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000007fea2000 - 000000007fee9000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000007fee9000 - 000000007feed000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000007feed000 - 000000007feff000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000007feff000 - 000000007ff00000 (usable)
1151MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000fe680
On node 0 totalpages: 524032
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
  DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
  Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
  HighMem zone: 294656 pages, LIFO batch:31
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 INTEL                                 ) @ 0x000fe020
ACPI: RSDT (v001 INTEL  D975XBX  0x00000131 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x7fefde48
ACPI: FADT (v001 INTEL  D975XBX  0x00000131 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x7fefcf10
ACPI: MADT (v001 INTEL  D975XBX  0x00000131 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x7fefce10
ACPI: WDDT (v001 INTEL  D975XBX  0x00000131 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x7fef7f90
ACPI: MCFG (v001 INTEL  D975XBX  0x00000131 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x7fef7f10
ACPI: ASF! (v032 INTEL  D975XBX  0x00000131 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x7fefcd10
ACPI: SSDT (v001 INTEL     CpuPm 0x00000131 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x7fefdc10
ACPI: SSDT (v001 INTEL   Cpu0Ist 0x00000131 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x7fefda10
ACPI: SSDT (v001 INTEL   Cpu1Ist 0x00000131 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x7fefd810
ACPI: SSDT (v001 INTEL   Cpu2Ist 0x00000131 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x7fefd610
ACPI: SSDT (v001 INTEL   Cpu3Ist 0x00000131 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x7fefd410
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTEL  D975XBX  0x00000131 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:6 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 15:6 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x82] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x83] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 80000000 (gap: 7ff00000:80100000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc dokeymap looptype=squashfs loo p=/image.squashfs cdroot initrd=gentoo.igz vga=791 splash=silent,theme:livecd-20 06.0 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=gentoo
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0427000 soft=c041f000
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Detected 3200.308 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Wed Dec 21 14:36:03 EST 2005 : initialized
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 2068612k/2096128k available (2388k kernel code, 24964k reserved, 561k da ta, 220k init, 1177236k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6408.24 BogoMIPS (lpj=32041238)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e4bd 00000000 00000001
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e4bd 0 0000000 00000001
monitor/mwait feature present.
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000080 0000e4bd 0000000 0 00000001
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz stepping 04
Booting processor 1/1 eip 2000
CPU 1 irqstacks, hard=c0428000 soft=c0420000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6400.44 BogoMIPS (lpj=32002236)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e4bd 00000000 00000001
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e4bd 0 0000000 00000001
monitor/mwait feature present.
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000080 0000e4bd 0000000 0 00000001
CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz stepping 04
Total of 2 processors activated (12808.69 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed.
Brought up 2 CPUs
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 3941k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: Using MMCONFIG
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050902
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
Boot video device is 0000:02:00.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P32_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *9 10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *9 10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX4._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX5._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:05: ioport range 0x500-0x53f has been reserved
pnp: 00:05: ioport range 0x400-0x47f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:05: ioport range 0x680-0x6ff has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: 92300000-923fffff
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@90000000 for 0000:02:00.0
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:03.0
  IO window: 3000-3fff
  MEM window: 90000000-91ffffff
  PREFETCH window: 80000000-8fffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: 92400000-924fffff
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.4
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: 92500000-925fffff
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.5
  IO window: 2000-2fff
  MEM window: 92100000-921fffff
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
  IO window: 1000-1fff
  MEM window: 92000000-920fffff
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.4[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.4 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.5[B] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.5 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1155189375.960:1): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
Squashfs 2.2 (released 2005/07/03) (C) 2002-2005 Phillip Lougher
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.4[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.4 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.5[B] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.5 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
initialized device: /dev/synth, node ( MAJOR 10, MINOR 25 )
vesafb: framebuffer at 0x80000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 3072k, total 2621 44k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=1
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:d290
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
vesafb: Mode is VGA compatible
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
PNP: PS/2 controller doesn't have AUX irq; using default 12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 0) is a 16550A
00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH7: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ICH7: chipset revision 1
ICH7: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x40b0-0x40b7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
hdb: BENQ DVD LS DW1655, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 2
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 3
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Starting balanced_irq
Using IPI Shortcut mode
Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 19, io mem 0x92204400
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 19, io base 0x00004080
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 20, io base 0x00004060
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x00004040
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 16, io base 0x00004020
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
sl811: driver sl811-hcd, 19 May 2005
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ohci1394: $Rev: 1313 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:04.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
input: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /class/input/input1
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0 -1
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[18]  MMIO=[92004000-920047ff]  Max  Packet=[2048]
sbp2: $Rev: 1306 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
libata version 1.20 loaded.
sata_sil 0000:06:05.0: version 0.9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8BB6880 ctl 0xF8BB688A bmdma 0xF8BB6800 irq 17
ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8BB68C0 ctl 0xF8BB68CA bmdma 0xF8BB6808 irq 17
ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8BB6A80 ctl 0xF8BB6A8A bmdma 0xF8BB6A00 irq 17
ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8BB6AC0 ctl 0xF8BB6ACA bmdma 0xF8BB6A08 irq 17
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4023 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:207f
ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 312581808 sectors: LBA48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi0 : sata_sil
ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi1 : sata_sil
ata3: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi2 : sata_sil
ata4: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi3 : sata_sil
  Vendor: ATA       Model: ST3160812AS       Rev: 3.AA
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[0090270001981058]
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 1.05
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x40C8 ctl 0x40E6 bmdma 0x40A0 irq 20
ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x40C0 ctl 0x40E2 bmdma 0x40A8 irq 20
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x40CF
ata5: disabling port
scsi4 : ata_piix
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x40C7
ata6: disabling port
scsi5 : ata_piix
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on s da
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.
SQUASHFS error: Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on sda
FAT: bogus number of FAT structure
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed
ReiserFS: sda1: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda1
ext3: No journal on filesystem on sda1
ReiserFS: sda2: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda2
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda2.
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda2.
SQUASHFS error: Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on sda2
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda2.
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
UDF-fs: No VRS found
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed
ReiserFS: sda3: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda3
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ReiserFS: hdb: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on h db
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hdb.
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hdb.
SQUASHFS error: Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on hdb
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdb.
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
eth1394: $Rev: 1312 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EC P]
pnp: Device 00:06 disabled.
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 6.1.16-k2
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64
e1000: eth1: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:05:00.0 disabled
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 6.1.16-k2
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64
e1000: eth1: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
e1000: eth1: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Half Duplex
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
pnp: Device 00:06 activated.
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 1 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA ]
e1000: eth1: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Half Duplex
fbsplash: console 0 using theme 'default'
fbsplash: switched splash state to 'on' on console 0
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth1: no IPv6 routers present


I hope this helps.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like you've got the ICH7 card and it's being recognized by the Live CD. Try rebuilding the kernel but only selecting the ICH7 module from the list. Maybe the Sil3114 one, also. It may be called riix, but in the manual kernel configuration screen (menuconfig), it's displayed as Intel RIIX/ICH, so the module is there. Try looking through all the options.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I haven't tried installing to SATA since 2004 version. But, back then it was actually a problem with my BIOS. Gentoo went all the way through install with no problems, but then on the reboot, the machine told me that there was no bootable device. I did some searches on various forums and found that this is because GRUB wasn't being recognized. What I had to do was to go into the BIOS and change the SATA drive to "Compatibility Mode". This was on a Dell PowerEdge 650 server, by the way. Once I changed that, I did a reinstall and everything was fine on reboot. Just for giggles and grins, I went back into the BIOS after getting the system all set up and changed the SATA option back to the default and it still booted. But, the key was that during install (especially during GRUB install) the SATA drive had to be in "Compatibiliity Mode". I did run across another machine with SATA, but there was no "Compatibility Mode" option in the BIOS and I never did get Gentoo installed on that machine.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for sharing your experience, FantomKnight!

Sadly, my BIOS doesn't seem to have "Compatability Mode" either. It does have a "Legacy" option, but that didn't work. I plan to go through mno's last suggestion tomorrow. It seems that method requires the Minimal Install CD instead of the LiveCD, as the SATA modules are displayed in an uneditable list in the GTK frontend version. Hopefully I can get the network working in that mode.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good luck... sorry that I'm no more help. I really would recommend going the manual way without the GUI, there are quite good guides available for how to do that. I never really had a problem doing a stage3 install manually. The biggest advantage is, of course, using menuconfig. It allows you to select the exact features you want, and many of the options are pre-set for you in any case.

What you can also do is install the system, then when you reboot, chroot into it from within the Live CD. Once there, go to /usr/src/linux and run

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make menuconfig

there you'd be able to select all the options correctly. If all else fails, try switching the ich for the sil3114 card, may work. I never had issues with the sil3114 card on a Tyan board. Of course, BIOS is different, too.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When you go through menuconfig, make certain that you install all SATA support directly in the kernel and not as modules (i.e., <*> as opposed to [M]). If you compile them as modules, then your system definitely won't boot because the SATA device drivers are not loaded and it won't recognize the hard drive. Also, if the hard drive is connected to one of those SATA RAID controllers, you need to have support for that built into the kernel as well.

Like mno, I have never used the LiveCD. You can still use that CD rather than the Minimal to do the install to which we refer. Just at the boot prompt, instead of hitting ENTER, type gentoo nox. The nox means don't run the graphical portion. It will then take you through the usual command line version that mno and I are used to.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for your patience, mno & FantomKnight. For some reason, the minimal install CD recognized my ethernet this time, so I was able to go through the menuconfig steps. Fortunately, the installation manual mentioned the importance of not using modules, so I made sure to install it directly.

The BIOS now recognizes that I have a hard drive to boot from! Granted, I did something else wrong in the install, so it's not loading right (I believe I screwed up the fstab stage - it informs me that the superblock doesn't describe an ext2 filesystem, which makes sense because I chose ext3 for everything because the guide made it seem like ext3 is more useful.) I expect I'll be posting something on the Installation forums if I can't get it to work right.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's probably yelling about your /boot partition. Post your fstab and grub.conf /boot/grub/grub.conf

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I suspect you don't need to know the contents of the fstab file, because I vaguely remember looking at the default fstab and being unable to decipher it, which would then be followed by skipping that part and hoping the default fstab would work (despite the fact that the guide specifically says it won't). If you want to confirm/deny my suspicion, the uncommented parts of etc/fstab are below.
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/dev/BOOT      /boot      ext2      noauto,noatime   1 2
/dev/ROOT      /      ext3      noatimw      0 1
/swv/SWAP      none      swap      sw      0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0   /mnt/cdrom   iso9660      noauto,ro   0 0

proc         /proc      proc      defaults   0 0
shm         /dev/shm   tmpfs      nodev,nosuid,noexec   0 0


I tried to open the file /boot/grub/grub.conf with nano, but it claims that I'm just creating a new file. It seems that there is no /grub/ directory in /boot/. This is odd, because I managed to get GRUB to start. It even informed me there was an error parsing the file, which I (think) I was able to fix. The error was just that I had typed root (sd0,0) instead of root(hd0,0) because I skimmed through the instructions too quickly - checking the GRUB Error forum suggested the change. After I replaced the "s" with "h" using GRUB's editor, I saw a lot of text scrolling by too quickly to read, although the bits I could catch suggest that they were related to the selections I made in the menuconfig stage.

I attempted to try fixing the fstab myself, but I couldn't figure out how to edit it. First I tried loading the Minimal Install CD, but for some reason I couldn't chroot back into the system. After that, I tried rebooting without the CD and giving it the root password as prompted after being informed that the filesystem couldn't be fixed. This way, I was able to pull up fstab, but when I tried to save my changes, I was informed that I was working on a read-only filesystem. Is there a way I can fix these files without starting the installation process over from the beginning?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, your fstab really won't work. /dev/BOOT, /dev/ROOT, /dev/SWAP don't exist. I would assume that /dev/BOOT should be /dev/hda1, /dev/ROOT = /dev/hda3, /dev/SWAP=/dev/hda2, but you'll need to check how your drive is configured using fdisk /dev/hda. Also, this is assuming /dev/hda is your drive. It maybe be /dev/sda since you're using sata drives...
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Yeah, I'd been replacing "h"'s with "s"'s throughout the install, which is why I made the error in the GRUB configuration.

Do you know a way to get back to edit the fstab file without reinstalling everything? It seems like there should be, but I couldn't figure out how to make either aforementioned method work.

Again, thanks for all your help, especially since it seems I should've posted this message in the installation forums.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, to get back to edit the fstab, just put your CD back in and boot from it. Skip everything up to the point to where you mount /mnt/gentoo and /mnt/boot. Then, all you need to do is to nano -w /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab.

Are you positive that you shouldn't use sda rather than hda? Usually SATA drives are recognized as sda and not hda.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, FantomKnight. I'm working on that now.

I did configure the SATA drives as sda. The place where the "s" was (apparently) wrong was in the GRUB configuration file. If I read everything right, it's supposed to be hdn whether or not it's a SATA hard drive - it certainly worked when I changed (sd0,0) to (hd0,0).
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not everywhere - just when you enter (hd0,0), you actually use hd regardless of whether it's really hda or sda. Anytime you list the whole path /dev/xda, you need to use sda.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's my grub.conf:

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default 1
timeout 10
fallback 0

title=Gentoo 2.6.17
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/gentoo-2.6.17 root=/dev/sda3

title=Gentoo 2.6.17 iptables
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/gentoo-2.6.17-ipt root=/dev/sda3


Ignore the fact that I have 2 title=[...] blocks, I have two kernels set up. Just copy over the correct settings for root and kernel. Make sure you replace gentoo-2.5.17[...] with the right path to your kernel file (will probably be /boot/bzImage) and point to the correct root (/) partition.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for confirming that, mno. I've progressed to a new problem now! Fortunately, it seems to have been covered already. I'll try rebuilding the kernel after all.
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