Bug 243472

Summary:	Live-CD installer: No hard drives found
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Paul Monastyrsky <danatrop>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Installer <gli-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	releng
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Paul Monastyrsky 2008-10-23 20:00:39 UTC

"Error: No hard drives found. Please load the appropriate modules for these drivers and restart the installer" while trying to partitioning hard drive (western didgital sata disk).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot gentoo from LiveCD
2."installer-dialog" from prompt
3."OK" for MessageBox about partitioning.


Actual Results:  
I'm getting an error message

Expected Results:  
Partitioning hard disk

Hard drive - WD6400AAKS

Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-10-25 21:03:59 UTC

Does the output of dmesg show your drives? Are they listed in /proc/partitions? What about /sys/block/*?

Comment 2 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-05-03 17:15:17 UTC

The installer is deprecated.