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Hi,
I am completely new to Slitaz and after browsing new and old posts couldn't find this problem so please help with suggestions.
I've booted live cd and got to desktop screen but in gparted and terminal (fdisk) i can't see my hdd. it is formated to ext3 with gparted live.
please tell me what to enable or load to make it visible!
thanks
Goran
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Slitaz kernel may not have driver support for your hard disk controller.
Reply with output:
lspci | grep -i -e pci -e isa -e ide -e sata
dmesg | grep -i -e ide -e hda -e sda
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Thanks for help!
This as an old Compaq laptop with K6-2 333 MHz and CD ROM + HDD 80GB IDE attached. During the execution of commands there was also 8GB USB plugged.
Here are the outputs:
lspci | grep -i -e pci -e isa -e ide -e sata
00:01.0 ISA bridge: OPTi Inc. 82C700 [FireStar] (rev 31)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01)
00:0a.1 Cardbus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01)
00:14.0 IDE interface: OPTi Inc. 82C825 [Firebridge 2] (rev 30)
dmesg | grep -i -e ide -e hda -e sda
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
pci 0000:00:12.0: Boot video device
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
ide_generic: please use 'probe_mask=0x3f' module parameter for probing all legacy ISA IDE ports
ide_gd driver 1.18
ide_cd driver 5.00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 15633408 512-byte hardware sectors: (8.00 GB/7.45 GiB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 15633408 512-byte hardware sectors: (8.00 GB/7.45 GiB)
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write protect is off
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
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There are 3 config options in slitaz kernel which are not set for your OPTi hard drive controller.
tux@slitaz:~$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i -e BLK_DEV_OPTI -e ATA_OPTI
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OPTI621 is not set
# CONFIG_PATA_OPTI is not set
# CONFIG_PATA_OPTIDMA is not set
Maybe it will work if you recompile kernel with those options set to =y
http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:kernel
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That is something I am not familiar with. I am not sure where to start. I have read the guide from your link but it is not described in detail. If you look at this "Modify the kernel configuration to your needs, and compile." it is not for beginner. So please if you have some link with details on how to compile I would be glad to learn.
In any case thanks for the help!
Goran
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It is not so complicated.
As an example: [c]# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OPTI621 is not set[/c] means that CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OPTI621 option... is not set. Just modify this line as this:
- cut out " is not set" at the end
- replace it with "=y"
- uncomment the configuration line by cutting out the leading "# " (careful, also cut out the space just after the sharp)
and then this option will be set as soon as you recompile your kernel.
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I feel stupid now! This is so easy. Followed mojo's link and when came to make menuconfig I could choose from a list what to enable or disable, where I enabled OPTi interface driver on 2 different places than followed the rest of the guide. I wanted to make an iso image because I compiled the kernel on much faster PC and need cd for old pc booting. So I followed this guide http://www.slitaz.org/en/doc/scratchbook/base-system.html and added some files from slitaz cd to make it slitaz-cooked.iso. Tested on old pc and it works. I was able to install it on HDD as it was visible now.
Thanks for the help!
Goran
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Nice 
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