When I booted from the "Gentoo 2008.0 LiveCD" with the default boot options, and tried to install the system I discovered that my ide drive was discovered as a sata drive instead. Im using a first generation pentium4 and I have two ide drives on it. harddrive "Maxtor 6y120p0" (~115GB Primary master) CD drive (Secundary slave)
This constitutes the status quo of a modern Linux kernel. Please state how this revelation is an actual bug.
(In reply to comment #1) > This constitutes the status quo of a modern Linux kernel. Please state how this > revelation is an actual bug. > Well it must be a bug because the installation of a bootloader is fairly difficult, or eaven impossible for a "dumbuser" like me.
(In reply to comment #2) > Well it must be a bug because the installation of a bootloader is fairly > difficult, or eaven impossible for a "dumbuser" like me. > This isn't a Gentoo related bug. You should report this to the Linux kernel developers,
(In reply to comment #3) > This isn't a Gentoo related bug. You should report this to the Linux kernel > developers, > I´m not sure about that, Debian did´nt have that problem on the machine. I thought the kernel is basically the same (only minor version differences mabe), and if I this is correct, the problem cannot be in the kernel
(In reply to comment #4) > I´m not sure about that, Debian did´nt have that problem on the machine. I > thought the kernel is basically the same (only minor version differences mabe), > and if I this is correct, the problem cannot be in the kernel > "Since kernel 2.6.19 the IDE driver subsystem has been rewritten and now all drivers use the sda/sdb/sdc names instead of hda/hdb/hdc." http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=v6d&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=ide+drive+recognized+as+sda&spell=1 http://www.sysresccd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=6833&sid=a1153e07b0b7ed4b19e456a4b6487bc8 http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_19 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=115514409104283&w=2
Um.. So it´s not a bug, terribly sorry about that.
