I have been trying to install Gentoo 2005.1 on an SATA drive connected to a Silicon Image chipset controller. The SATA interface and drive are found at boot, I then create 3 parititions:
/dev/sda1 32M /boot /dev/sda2 512M /dev/sda3 40GB / Then I go through the usual process of untarring a stage3 tarball, copying over a portage snapshot and distfiles etc. all goes well, the files are on the partitions and all looks fine. The issue occurs when I try to chroot into the new environment when issuing the command chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash I get the error "segmentation fault" and cannot chroot into the new environment. Is there likely to be something that I am doing wrong? Is there another set of instructions specifically for an SATA install? I had issues getting the drive to work in Windows as well until I removed by Pinannacle PCTV card after which Windows found the drive with no problems - could it perhaps be that this caused a hardware conflict that caused the above error? I haven't had the time to try the install again since removing the PCTV card but would like to know if there is anything different I need to do to install Gentoo to an SATA disk. Cheers Jamie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
