There has been a BUNCH of issues posted on the net regarding installation of Gentoo and other Linux distros on the new ASUS P5B running Intel Core 2 Duo processors. After a couple of days trying to get grub and/or lilo to install I stumbled onto a post that speculated that udev was returning a different device name (/dev/hda) than the original LiveCD (which gave /dev/hdc). Follows is my workaround... Boot from 2006.1 LiveCD (gentoo all-generic-ide irqpoll) or from the experiemntal kernel developed for the new Core 2 Duo (sorry lost the link). # check the drives: > fdisk -l In my case I get /dev/hdc and /dev/sda (for the Aware3 IDE RAID controller). Unfortunately,booting the kernel udev mounts /dev/hdc device as /dev/hda. I was able to trick lilo into loading by temporarily symbolically linking /dev/hda* to /dev/hdc* and then rerunning lilo. I will retry this for grub after testing the system. EBo -- (sorry for not supplying 'emerge --info' I'm writing this from my laptop)
trying to install grub after getting everything to run still gives me the dreaded error... Lilo works fine with the workaround described above. Now it's off to sleep from pulling a 36hour day getting this all to work.
udev has nothing to do with it ... it populates drives the way the kernel enumerates them if you come up with a real information about the problem / workaround, then maybe we can doc it ... but at the moment, i dont see anything worth documenting
Nope. Nothing worth documenting yet, either.
