"hastenthunder" <hastenthunder@hotmail.com> writes:

]The booting message shows that I've a ATA hard drive, and /dev/hda exist.

Just wondering-- do you want help or do you just want to complain?
In the former case as Johannes says, information is needed.
You say the booting message says you have an ATA drive. What is that
message? What do you mean /dev/hda exists? As a file? That is probably
irrelevant. What is the relevant content of dmesg?

You admit you do not know what is going on. Why do you feel that you are
then able to interpret the messages?

hda is the first drive on the first ide controller (the master) Do you have
a master drive on the first ide controller? What error messages do you get?


]"Johannes Truschnigg" <johannes.truschnigg@gmx.at> wrote in message
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]> Release some more specs of your system - are you sure you're installing
]> Gentoo on an IDE-Disk? Maybe it's an SATA-Device, that'd be /dev/sda
]> then. Or maybe the IDE-Controller the disk is attached to lacks
]> Linux-support.
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]> Provide us with more infos, and we provide you with solutions
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]> hastenthunder wrote:
]> | Hi,
]> |
]> | I'm trying to install AMD64 version of GENTOO and fdisk cannot find
]> | /dev/hda.
]> | The dmesg command show that /dev/hda does exist, but neither fdisk nor
]ls
]> | can see it.
]> |
]> | Any help is greatly appreciated.
]> |
]> | G.
]> |
]> |
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