Re: Problems with installation

[Partha Pratim Ghosh <ghosh@ukzn.ac.za>]

Dear Debian Developers,

	Firstly let me thank Frans for his suggestions for using the testing
distribution Etch and this helped to recognise the SATA. Let me restate
the system:

		Intel D101GGC motherboard
		Phoenix AwardBios
		1st IDE master:	80 GB ATA hdd, recognised as /dev/hda
		1st IDE slave: DVD-CDrom 
		3rd master: 160 GB SATA hdd, recognised as /dev/sda
		4th master: 160 GB SATA hdd, recognised as /dev/sdb

	I have Windows 95 installed on /dev/hda, Windows XP installed
on /dev/sda and DEbian Etch installed on /dev/sdb. In the process of
install, GRUB did not recognise the Win95 on /dev/hda. Finally when I
installed it on the MBR and installation completed, on reboot the
following error appeared:

	Error 15: File Not Found

	I also tried to install the GRUB on /dev/sdb, with no avail. Also, if
required: the access modes provided by the BIOS for the hdd's are either
AUTO or LARGE...

	Please help me to solve this solution. 

	With my thanks and regards,

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 16:25 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 23 March 2006 16:04, Partha Pratim Ghosh wrote:
> > 	I wish to install Debian Sarge and I have the 14-CD set. The
> > installation programme recognises my DVD-drive, but does not recognise
> > the SATA drives. In the phase where it checks for partition table, it
> > provides me with the partition table for the Seagate hdd only.
> 
> Unfortunately SATA is not very well supported by the kernel included in 
> Sarge (2.6.8). Good SATA support was only implemented around 2.6.12 and 
> some parts of it (like SATA ATAPI CD/DVD support) are still being worked 
> on.
> 
> At the moment there are two options you could consider:
> - use the Beta2 installation CD images on [1] and install Etch
> - use an unofficial image created by Kenshi Muto [2] which has more recent
>   kernels and related software backported for Sarge and install Sarge
> 
> With the last option you can still use the 14 CDs you have as a package 
> repository.
> 
> Cheers,
> FJP
> 
> [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
> [2] http://kmuto.jp/b.cgi/debian/d-i-2615.htm
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