The ataraid module (or the pdcraid) modules are apparently broken on my system. After I boot from the latest 1.4 LiveCD with gentoo doataraid, I can perform partitions and formats on /dev/ataraid/disc0/disc without issue. However, if I try to chroot into it after it's properly extracted and mounted, it usually get a Segmentation Fault. If I try to reformat this partition and reimage with the stage3 tar, it will do the same thing. I've tried all three stages, and it's usually the same thing. Occaisonally, I will be able to chroot into /mnt/gentoo, but it will segfault on env-update. After I gave up on the LiveCD, I contined and tried to install gentoo through RedHat. Promise made a proprietary driver for redhat, so redhat installed correctly. When I reimaged my gentoo partition with the stage3, I could easily chroot into it and do whatever I want. I've managed to compile the kernel with ataraid and pdcraid support through redhat, however, when I boot, I will occaisonally get segfaults and panics during boot. Sometimes, it will suceed and give me a login prompt. However, most functions: emerge, make, gcc, will give me a segfault. On the logs, there is a whole bunch of errors: hde: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hde: drive not ready for command ide2: reset: success Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot LiveCD with gentoo doataraid 2. Partition/format/image a new gentoo partition 3. Attempt to chroot into the new paritiion Actual Results: Segmentation Fault is common. Occaisonally, it will succeed with the chroot, but fail on the env-update. Expected Results: It shoud have simply installed correctly. I own a Sager 8890 laptop with a Promise FastTrak100 Lite RAID controller. I have two Toshiba 60gb laptop harddrives in raid0 striping. Emerge info from a working install (through redhat) yields a segfault. Memory is tested with no errors in LiveCD Memtest program.
those type of errors usually point to hardware problems. Check your hardware.
