cfdisk doesnt show partition and install startup hang

miux · 02-24-2008, 02:32 PM

I've tried with Knoppix, still same stuffs came out for lspci. While Accelerated Knoppix hangs while its booting
And while booting, its stating that its loading the cd-rom from /dev/hda. So my HDD actually went undetected at all?

But how is it possible for all the hardware to go unsupported?

miux · 02-25-2008, 03:48 AM

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This is from the lspci and lspci -vv

onebuck · 02-25-2008, 07:33 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by miux

I've tried with Knoppix, still same stuffs came out for lspci. While Accelerated Knoppix hangs while its booting
And while booting, its stating that its loading the cd-rom from /dev/hda. So my HDD actually went undetected at all?

But how is it possible for all the hardware to go unsupported?

Which kernel(s) did you choose for each? AK has options you can choose. At what point did you hang?

H_TeXMeX_H · 02-25-2008, 01:20 PM

Now that I think about it, it might be a side-effect of disabling IO-APIC with 'huge.s noioapic'. How did you boot into knoppix ? did you pass 'noioapic' ? if so, try without it.

miux · 02-25-2008, 09:36 PM

I booted normally into knoppix and acc. knoppix by pressing enter without enterin the huge.s. I choose the first option among the 6 while starting the knoppix.

As for acc. knoppix, it hangs during the booting process i assume. Its just a blank black screen, cant even eject the disc or ctr-alt-del reboot.

Out of curiosity, i did use the patition magic to create linux partition. followed by the booting installation from the dvd and without goin thru fdisk. The installation was successful. But still, half of the hardware remained as unknown device

Bruce Hill · 02-26-2008, 03:15 AM

The unknown device does not mean the kernel has not loaded support for your hardware. It simply means that your pci.ids file does not have that hardware listed.

H_TeXMeX_H · 02-26-2008, 04:44 AM

I still think this has something to do with BIOS settings, why doesn't it detect a SATA/AHCI controller, it only detects the IDE one. Either way if it does detect the SATA HDD, it will be something like '/dev/sda', typically. I think newer kernels went back to '/dev/hda' ?

miux · 02-26-2008, 06:50 AM

So...how should i take care of those unknown devices?
I'm not sure what happened, but it is under /dev/sda now

Bruce Hill · 02-26-2008, 08:19 AM

Get the latest pci.ids file and put it in /usr/share/pci.ids and then issue "/sbin/lspci" again and see what's different. The one in Slackware-12.0 to -current is from 2007-06-05, iirc. The present one in The Linux PCI ID Repository is dated 2008-02-26.

It makes no difference on my machine ... ymmv.

miux · 03-02-2008, 12:16 PM

I've tried transferring the file thru a usb thumbdrive and having some problem with the HAL issue. I'll try to read up bout that.

As for the time being, it seems that i cant get my internet running. Configured it thru netconfig. Still no results. Same goes to the wireless.
Btw, i'm using a wired router which connects to the laptop.

Even the sound still cant be heard, after configuring alsaconf and alsamixer.

It seems to me that nothing is working till now. Besides being able to load the KDE

Bruce Hill · 03-02-2008, 12:47 PM

For the USB thumbdrive, open a terminal/konsole and login as root, then add your normal user to the cdrom and plugdev groups by issuing "vigr" and then press the Insert key and move with the mouse cursor. It should look like this:

Code:

cdrom:x:19:mingdao

for each of them except use your username. To save that file after adding your username to those two groups, press the Esc key and then :x

For help with your internet, in a terminal/konsole issue and post the output of the following commands:

Code:

lspci | grep -i ethernet
ifconfig
iwconfig

For your sound problems, in a terminal/konsole issue "lsmod | grep -i snd" and post the output.

When you post the output of these commands, use VBCode. If you don't know how to do that, put [_code] without the _ before your output, and [_/code] without the _ after your output, so we can more easily read it.

miux · 03-03-2008, 01:44 AM

For the first matter, its done. Now i can explore the thumbdrive and cd

Means i wont be able to access it as root?

lspci | grep -i ethernet

Code:

00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 054c (rev a2)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

ifconfig

Code:

lo     Link encap:Local Loopback
       inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
       inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
       UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
       RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
       TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
       collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
       RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

iwconfig

Code:

lo     no wireless extensions
eth8   no wireless extensions

lsmod | grep -i snd

Code:

snd _seq_dummy     2692  0
snd_seq_oss     28032  0
snd_seq_mide_event     5888  1 snd__seq_oss
snd_seq     42576  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_seq_device     6540  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss     38432  0
snd_mixer_oss     13824  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hda_intel     15896  0
snd_hda_codec     207744  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm     65160  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer     17540  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd     41956  9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore     5728  1 snd
snd_page_alloc     7432  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-03-2008, 04:34 AM

One note, when using 'cfdisk' or 'fdisk' because your drive is SATA, it'll show up as '/dev/sda' or similar, so if you want to use these programs on it do 'cfdisk /dev/sda' or 'fdisk /dev/sda'.