Re: Hard drive not detected with 2.6 kernel
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:05:09PM -0500, Walter Landry wrote:
> Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have a new laptop, an IBM Thinkpad T43. So, of course, I
> > immediately started putting Debian on it with RC2. The first problem
> > I ran into is that the integrated ethernet card (Broadcom NetXtreme)
> > was not recognized. So I selected the tg3 driver, and it worked fine.
> > Using the 2.4 kernel, I was able to install a new system.
> >
> > However, for various reasons I won't go into, I wanted to use the 2.6
> > kernel. Unfortunately, the netinst iso can not detect my hard drive.
> > I get a "No partionable media" error. I get a similar problem if I
> > build a custom 2.6 kernel and use it on my 2.4 install.
> >
> > I have tried with "noapic nolapic" and "noapic nolapic acpi=off", but
> > I still get the same error. The hard drive is a Fujitsu MHT2060AH.
> >
> > Are there any other kernel options that might work? I would have
> > tried a daily build, but the link seems down.
>
> It turns out that I have an SATA drive. After searching around the
> net, I compiled a kernel with SATA compiled into the kernel (no
> module) and without Advanced Partition Support. After changing
> everything in /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf from /dev/hda to /dev/sda,
> it works fine.
Thanks for the feedback. And which details do you what to share
with the part of mankind that _provided you_ with free software?
> Cheers,
> Walter Landry
> wlandry@ucsd.edu
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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