Gentoo 2002.2 hangs on SCSI Hard Drive

[beerman]

I am trying to install Gentoo on an IBM Intellistation MPro with a 20GB hard drive and 2 IDE CD Drives. When the Live CD begins to detect the drive, it detects the make and model of the drive and just hangs there.

I have tried searching this forum along with Gentoo forums with no success.

EDIT: Its been a long day today :D

I am running Gentoo 2004.2 and ithe LIVE CD Hangs when trying to detect my SCSI hard drive.

[beerman]

:confused:

[gehidore]

Use the SMP kernel on the livecd.
Also see if DSL (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org) loads.

[beerman]

Thanks for the reply!

I haven't installed Gentoo from another Live CD before but from what I've seen, it shouldn't be too difficult.

[beerman]

I download DSL and it boot just fine but I cannot run fdisk and partition the local disk so I can start the Gentoo install. Is there a step I'm missing or is DSL not detecting the disk either?

[gehidore]

Originally posted by beerman
I download DSL and it boot just fine but I cannot run fdisk and partition the local disk so I can start the Gentoo install. Is there a step I'm missing or is DSL not detecting the disk either?
Did you try from a root shell?

If so did you try
fdisk /dev/hda
fdisk /dev/sda

[beerman]

I believe I was in root shell and tried fdisk /dev/hda

I'll give sda a shot and make sure I'm in the rool shell.



EDIT: Horray I'm retarded! Just realized that DSL is based off Knoppix (according to the boot screen). I also must say that DSL rocks!


All of this trouble to try to install a Linux Distro I have never gotten to work. :p

[beerman]

I was able to get Gentoo installed and went through their entire handbook and rebooted. However, it will not mount the root drive as it does not reconize "/dev/hda3". Is there a special command or anything additional I need to do for scsi drives?


Edit: I've done some research on Google and on this site on how to configure GRUB for SCSI use but I can't seem to get the hang of it. I may see if there is a spare IDE machine around or see if anyone replies.

[linux_composer]

SCSI drives are sd, not hd. hda3 needs to be sda3. Change that, and all should work!

Also, make sure your fstab has sd not hd for the SCSI drives, otherwise you won't be able to use the system properly (ie it won't find the drives)!

[gehidore]

Originally posted by linux_composer
SCSI drives are sd, not hd. hda3 needs to be sda3. Change that, and all should work!

Also, make sure your fstab has sd not hd for the SCSI drives, otherwise you won't be able to use the system properly (ie it won't find the drives)!

Thats why my fstab is covered in (/dev/sda* /dev/sdb* /dev/sdc* /dev/sdd* ) 's :p

[linux_composer]

Well, likewise...

But I thought that this was a problem that Beerman was experiencing and not you.... :confused: