[gentoo-dev] two suggestions

[gentoo-dev] two suggestions

[Darren Twa]

Hello,

I've tried Gentoo and have a couple of suggestions.  I am not a Linux wizard
but not a total newbie.  As someone with mediocre knowledge I pass on two
suggestions:

1.  In the installation instructions let the user know to select Linux (x82
or x83, I don't remember right now) as the filesystem type when using
Reiser.

2.  This is more important.  My system is one that has an onboard Highpoint
RAID controller (Abit KT7-RAID).  In the install when you must chroot after
mounting the cd image I was unable to follow the instructions further
because there were not devices for hard drives e,f,g,h only a,b,c,d.  To
install I was forced to move the drive I wanted to install to the other
controller because I didn't know how to create the necessary devices at that
point.  This just made the disk disappear and I had to install LILO because
Grub was totally lost.

Thanks for Gentoo.  It looks like the Linux I've been looking for.

Darren

Re: [gentoo-dev] two suggestions (hpt370 woes)

[Joe Bormolini]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:18:17 -0700
"Darren Twa" <twa@headthirst.com> wrote:

> 2.  This is more important.  My system is one that has an onboard
Highpoint
> RAID controller (Abit KT7-RAID).  In the install when you must chroot
after
> mounting the cd image I was unable to follow the instructions further
> because there were not devices for hard drives e,f,g,h only a,b,c,d.  To
> install I was forced to move the drive I wanted to install to the other
> controller because I didn't know how to create the necessary devices at
that
> point.  This just made the disk disappear and I had to install LILO
because
> Grub was totally lost.
> 
> Thanks for Gentoo.  It looks like the Linux I've been looking for.
> 
> Darren
> 

Ohhhhhhh boy :p I have a highpoint 370 controller on my mobo (epox 8k7a+)
and the RAID support is only present in the alan cox kernel releases. It
took some time before I figured out how to get the kernel I compiled to
boot the root image off the disk (lol... hint "rdev" and linuxdoc.org). So
when I did get it booting properly, I mounted devfs and hurrah there was
/dev/ataraid/disc0. The only way I got grub to install was from a bootdisk
- installing from linux seemed to mess up my array... YMMV :p I'm
proud to say that everything is running quite nicely now =) good luck!
Also keep in mind any /dev/hd(e,f,g,whatever) will NOT be the raid array
and WILL screw stuff up if you try to format it, write to it, etc.

	--lordjoe