The kernel on the Gentoo installer ISO doesn't support the Promise 20276 IDE controller (aka FasTrack133). It's an onboard ide "raid" controller used on the ASUS A7V333 motherboard (among others). There's a trivial patch from lkml to make it work (same driver that works for 20275 works for 20276, just have to add the 20276's PCI ID everywhere the source references the 20275's). Without this support in the ISO users of motherboards with this chipset can't really start installing. The patch was added to Marcelo's tree for 2.4.19-pre5 and later I believe. You can find the patch by googling for the subject line: "add Promise 20276 to supported IDE controllers".
Brandon, it would be so nice of you to provide a URL to the patch and possibly a URL to the readme for it.
Bitkeeper changeset for the PDC20276 (1.220.1.24) (also stuck this in bug URL field): http://linux-stingr.bkbits.net:8080/checkpoint/patch@1.220.1.24 Here's some links to archived copies of the original lkml patch email - in all cases there's a bit of html embedded, couldn't find an archive that has clean copies: http://lkml.org/archive/2002/3/17/99/plain.html http://se.debian.net/lists/linux-kernel/2002/03/msg04079.html http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-11/0039.html
gentoo-2.4.19-r5 kernel patch has PDC20276 support patch in it when I used it last night. Just need that kernel on the CD I guess and it would fix the problem (for now I put r5 onto the ISO image myself manually and got my machine booted, but it might be nice to fix it for others with the same hardware who might want to try gentoo).
Michael, what about mjc-sources? Is this included?
By the way, the kernel in the official Gentoo 1.2 ISO works fine by default on this hardware now so I guess that would make the bug closed.
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.
