[mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

Paul Harvey paul.l.harvey at gmail.com
Sat May 7 04:06:22 UTC 2005


On 5/6/05, David Brieck Jr. <dbrieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/6/05, Drew Tomlinson <drew at mykitchentable.net> wrote:
> > >
> > Yeah, actually it's been harder than that.  To sum it up, right now I'm
> > sitting at work, looking at the livecd# prompt via an ssh connection.
> > The livecd boot seems to have only picked up my IDE drive attached to my 
> > Promise 150 PATA connector.  I can see it via fdisk /dev/sda1.
> > 
> > I also have two SCSI drives connected to an Advansys controller but they
> > are nowhere to be found.  I know I was required to load a driver when
> > installing Fedora Core 3.  I suspect I have to do something similar here
> > but have no clue where to begin.  Google hasn't turned up anything so I
> > made a plea to the gentoo-users list.  I'm anxiously awaiting someone to 
> > take pity on me.  :)
> 
>  I take it you are trying to install your system to one of the SCSI drives? 
> If you're not, just go ahead and install everything to the IDE drive and
> when you get to the part of compiling your kernel just make sure you build
> in the driver. It looks like that particular driver isn't loaded by default.
>  
>  You'll have to change the code maturity option so that you'll be able to
> find the driver in the SCSI low level menu of your kenerl configure. The
> fact that it's a new driver is probably why it's not loading for you by
> default.
>  
>  Your best bet is to install to your IDE drive, and if you'd like your SCSI
> drive to be your boot drive just build the correct kernel drvier and move
> your data over once your system is running. Don't forget to change your
> fstab though before rebooting on the SCSI drive.
>  
> 
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If you haven't found them yet, you might want to check out the Gentoo
forums.  http://forums.gentoo.org  I don't think I've encountered any
problems with Gentoo that someone hasn't asked about there, and almost
always someone has the answer.

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