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Bug 5532 - FDISK in install cd
Summary: FDISK in install cd
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: Lowest critical (vote)
Assignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-07-24 20:28 UTC by Parag Mehta (RETIRED)
Modified: 2005-03-25 11:25 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Parag Mehta (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-07-24 20:28:44 UTC
while isntalling on a pentium based machine yesterday when i boot from the 1.2 
install cd (16mb iso), dmesg shows the hda has "seek status error:" sutff and 
fdisk does not recognise the hda at all. 

whereas when booted by a debian or redhat or mandrake install cd on the same 
machine there are aboslutely no errors and the hda is detected fine and also 
the fdisk detects the hda. have tried the other distributions boot in the 
rescue mode and then also tried their installation mode too.. there were no 
errors at all.

i dont understand how to reproduce the error. but this thing could be 
minimised if we can also put "cfdisk" in the install cd.

pm
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2002-07-24 20:39:33 UTC
try disabling DMA on the drives
Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-12-22 00:23:04 UTC
Try the latest experimental "2002122100" livecd at 
http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/experimental/livecd/ and let me know your results 
(good/bad) I expect it was due to some quirk in the 1.2 kernel.
Comment 3 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-01-10 01:52:38 UTC
Closing due to age and lack of user follow-up
Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-25 11:25:01 UTC
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.