[tlinux-users:08658] Re: hard drive not detected

Did you select the right option for your hard drive devices at the SATA 
and IDE section inside of kernel config??
If you are talking about /dev/sda I guest that you have a SATA device.
After start the LIVE CD, look for devices and CHIP SET of your  Qosmio  
moving to  a CONSOLE (Ctrl -  Alt - F2)  and type:

lspci  (It will show you all devices)
lsmod (It will show all modules installed by LIVE CD)

if the list of lsmod command is too long use
lsmod | less
which will allow see line by line.

You have to setup at the kernel config the same devices based on "lspci' 
command that you will see as well as you have to include all modules 
used by LIVE CD detected and showed with  "lsmod" command as module [M] 
or like part of Kernel <*>.

I have experienced in a Satellite machine with UBUNTU and Gentoo that 
UBUNTU use  hard DRIVE as /dev/sda and Gentoo /dev/hda due to 
misconfiguration of Hard Disk drives.

About GRUB install  problem, you have to fix DRIVE config problem first 
and later try to install it at /dev/sda or /dev/hda, depending of the 
kind of Hard Disk that your Qosmio has.
Good luck
Sigfrido
 

Manik Mayur wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed Gentoo 2007.0 on my Qosmio F45-AV411B on an extended 
> partition. It came with Vista Ultimate preinstalled in the primary 
> partition.
>
> Now I'm trying to make the system dual-bootable, but whenever I try to 
> boot through the Gentoo installer CD, mount my linux partition 
> (/dev/sda6) and try to install grub on the root drive (/dev/sda6), it 
> shows disk IO error and /dev/ doesnot show any sda. What should be the 
> problem? Any help will be highly appreciated.
>
> Manik