Unable to see harddrive after booting off LiveCD

[|enouf|]

ALSO ...

Note that 'pci=off' or 'nopci' likely helps because of the new way UDEV or is it HOTPLUG sees devices -- IIRC, and I'm only repeating what I heard in a thread a few days ago -- but udev which is NEW (old was devfs) -- works exactly the OPPOSITE way than does devfs and has broken many systems -- I'll try to dig up the Usenet thread I'm referring to..

ahhh.....here it is

http://groups.google.com/group/linux...t%3Audev&hl=en

I'm going to reread it now too....

Perhaps because of this udev stuff -- maybe even 'acpi=off' or 'apic=off' (each by itself) might also accomplish what 'pci=off' does....not that you'd want to disable either - but track down the way this newer udev stuff works

Here's some things to look at;
$ dmesg | grep -i udev (thanks underscore )
doesn't not list anything for me (but I have older hardware and an older 2.6.8 kernel) -- but when substituting 'hotplug' i get hits - wonder what yours says
dmesg lists some/most bootup messages - the command above will pluck out the lines with your relevant terms (e.g., 'udev' in bolded example above)

[ICPUG]

Bandoba,

I did a Google search for - "pci=off" linux - and found that your problem is not uncommon. It seems to be a regular problem with users trying to install various versions of Linux, for example! It seems to be a hardware related thing and the solution seems to be to find the right combination of cheatcodes to avoid having to use pci=off. pci=off actually instructs Knoppix not to detect pci devices and I guess your network card is a pci device - which is why it will not work when you have pci=off.

There is an alternative Knoppix cheatcode, pci=bios, which may help in some cases. I have also seen reference to pci=biosirq in cases where there is an interrupt conflict. However, as this is not mentioned on the Knoppix cheat code list, I am not sure of its validity.

What is not obvious is that parameters other than Knoppix cheat codes can be added to the kernel line, because the Linux kernel can accept parameters irrespective of whether it is Knoppix or something else. I think the nomce parameter is a Linux kernel parameter, rather than a Knoppix specific one. I say this because I found a whole web page on the pci parameter. It may be worth trying out some of the possibilities mentioned. You can find this page at:
http://www.bigwebmaster.com/General/...t-HOWTO-4.html

I am not into the mysteries of hardware, but I hope the above mentioned possibilities may lead to a solution to your problem.

ICPUG