Re: d-i fails to install: Tyan Thunder K8W, SATA Seagate Barracuda
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 16:31 +0100, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> On Thursday 17 February 2005 10:12 pm, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> > More SATA troubles to report. I'm using this sid-amd64-netinst.iso (Feb.
> > 11, 2005) to install Debian-amd64 on two in theory identical new
> > dual-AMD64 boxes (Mobo Tyan Thunder K8W, S2885). The hard drives are
> > Seagate Barracuda, 200G, Model ST3200822A8. Attached you will find the
> > lspci output.
>
> Pedro,
>
> I just saw that there is a BIOS update (2.04) with a remark: "Update Silicon
> Image Oprom to v5.048 to resolve some DOS & Linux compatibility issues"...
> But could not find what that means...
>
Thanks, my board has BIOS 5.0.31. I'll see if I can upgrade to the
latest.
> I've just updated to this version, but did not see any differences... I've
> installed in December on my Tyan K8W with the net install disk without
> problems on a SATA system with a Maxtor 6B200M0... the
> vmlinuz-2.6.10-9-amd64-k8-smp (-4) kernel reboots after detecting the SATA
> disks, but 2.6.8 runs fine. (the first revision of this 2.6.10 kernel worked
> too...)
>
> Anyway, I've been running the pure64 for two months in a production
> environment and I'm very happy with it. So, don't give up :)
>
> Egon
>
Thank you, this is encouraging. And no, I won't give up for now. But I
hope it won't take me too long otherwise the "other" folks will tell me
"why bother? just install XP."
Cheers,
--
Pedro
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