Hello all. I've become pretty enthusiastic with Gentoo the past few months. Therefore I have been eagerly awaiting the 1.4 final LiveCD, but to my disappointment it did recognize my RAID array, which 1.4 RC4 did! To be precise: I have an ASUS A7V33 MoBo with Promise PDC20276 FastTrak RAID controller, which is enabled and I use 2*80GB disks. This setup works fine in Windows (all versions). When I insert the 1.4 final LiveCD (Athlon-XP-20030731 or basic) and start installation with "acpi doataraid", no disks are found, and I obviously cannot install gentoo. When I try the same with the 1.4 RC4 CD, my RAID array is perfectly recognized as /dev/ataraid/disc0/disc and I can install. BTW, the LiveCD was downloaded from a mirror but looks allright otherwise.
try: cdimage# modprobe ataraid cdimage# modprobe pdcraid
Yes of course, that is the first thing I've tried since that is in the documentation. "modprobe ataraid" works ok, but does not recognize my raid array (of course). The output from "modprobe pdcraid" is: "/lib/modules/2.4.21-gss/kernel/drivers/raid/pdcraid.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors ..." followed by standard text and repetitions and in dmesg I find the line "Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver 0.03beta: No raid array found"
The following output from dmesg could be relevant (after several other PDC20276 messages stating e.g. that a controller at IDE slot 00:06.0 has been found): "PDC20276: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)" although I know the RAID controller is operational (it's a multiboot system and Windows operates just fine). Also, the controller shares IRQ12 with the onboard USB controller at 00:09.0.
Just to add more information: With the 1.4RC4 LiveCD, the output from dmseg is: "PDC20276: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 30 ... PDC20276: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Srecondary MASTER Mode. ..." and the RAID array is recognized, as I mentioned before.
Well, as someone else pointed out to me, a workaround is to boot the LiveCD with "smp doataraid". Indeed this works. However, I don't think this really is the solution, is it?
old bug, reopen if necessary
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
