I tried to install gentoo on my new Maxtor Gentoo was unable to install. On my old HD isntalling gentoo was no problem at all( fast boot from cd) On the new HD(xp runs on it) the system tries to turn down the udma to 33!!!! The are a lot of errors during the boot!!!
pass it some kern parameters ... i dont remember the exact parameters but if you google for it or take your prob to forums.gentoo.org you should find the answer also you could look into /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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.