[ale] SATA experience
Philip Polstra
ppolstra at gmail.com
Mon Feb 6 12:30:07 EST 2006
The device is /dev/sda. The boot partition is /dev/sda1, swap is /dev/sda2,
and root is /dev/sda3. /dev/hda is my DVD drive. It seems to not want to
mount the root partition.
On 2/6/06, Robert L. Harris <Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> What device are you trying to mount? I believe the root device isn't
> /dev/hda1 for example with sata.
>
>
> Thus spake Philip Polstra (ppolstra at gmail.com):
>
> > Anyone else using a SATA drive on their Linux system? I'm having the
> > hardest time trying to get this to work with Gentoo. The live CD
> boots
> > fine, and I am to build and install the new system. I keeps giving
> me
> > errors when I try to reboot into the new system. I have a Sis 964
> chipset
> > in my Shuttle system. I have tried to follow the directions on the
> Gentoo
> > Wiki, but I must be missing something because it won't mount my root
> > partition if it is SATA. This works fine with other older Distros
> (Debian
> > 3.1, FC4, etc.), but I think I'd be better off with Gentoo in the
> long
> > run.
>
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> :wq!
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