Re: installer still not in Sarge ?
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:39:21AM +0100, xerces8 wrote:
> From: Bob Hutchinson <hutchlists@midwales.com>
>
> > On Monday 07 Feb 2005 08:10, xerces8 wrote:
> > > From: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
> > >
> > > > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:37:00PM +0100, xerces8 wrote:
> > > > > From: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:48:06AM +0100, xerces8 wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I downloaded the Sarge weekly CD images on 2005-jan-25 ( label is :
> > > > > > > Debian GNU/Linux testing "Sarge" - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1
> > > > > > > (20050122) )
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > annd se the same hungup as in the the september version.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What hangup? Can you point me to a previous message?
> > > > >
> > > > > Ah, I found my old message :
> > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/2004/10/msg00005.html
> > > > >
> > > > > It is short :
> > > > >
> > > > > I tried sarge weekly from 20040925 on my athlon (K-7) and it
> > > > > fails on first boot with last lines :
> > > > >
> > > > > pivot_root: No such file or directory
> > > >
> > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > > Do you still get that message with your more recent install CD?
> > >
> > > I checked and yes, I get that.
> > > It appears the kernel does not find my HD ( and the IDE controller,
> > > it is a Promise PDC 20276); hard to tell as the messages fly off the
> > > screen too fast. ( any idea how to view them ? )
> >
> > Not SATA by any chance?
> > That requires initrd, so it can boot from a ramdisk and get the SATA drivers
> > going
> > Just a thought
> >
> > >
> > > Besides , I tried the RC2 installer CD and it works. So how integrated is
> > > it ?
> > >
>
> I moved my HD to a VIA IDE adapter and there it all works.
> So it seems the PDC driver is lost somewhere.
I am not entirely sure, depends on your motherboard, but i think i remember
that with my asus A8v deluxe, which has the same configuration as you, the PDC
controller was available only in raid volumes and not as normal disk device or
something such, i moved the disk to the via controller for now too, and it
worked.
There is some stuff which would enable the softraid magic to be bios-raid
compatible, but i didn't have time to follow up on it.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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