Re: Debian Install CD doesn't recognize my hard drive
I recommend you try Knoppix to see what it says about your harddrive.
It has excellent hardware detection, and will install on almost
anything x86 compatible.
Curt-
On Monday 29 March 2004 19:36, Hadar Pedhazur was heart to say:
> I have an old Dell Inspiron 7000. Yesterday, I downloaded (and
> burned) the ISO images for debian sid from March 27, 2004.
>
> I booted directly from the cd, and hit enter at the boot prompt. I
> see the prompts for language, keyboard, etc., however I never see
> any prompts for partitioning the hard drive. After the first few
> prompts, which includes asking whether I want to do a cd integrity
> check, it drops me into a shell, and says to type "exit" to
> continue the installation. If I do that, it just repeats the above
> process.
>
> Output from dmesg shows that /dev/hda is recognized as the hard
> drive (which is correct). During the "hardware detect" phase
> (before the cd integrity check), the only check that hangs for a
> bit (about 5 seconds) is the "ide-detect" phase. lsmod shows
> ide-detect (and ide-core, etc.) are all loaded, but apparently they
> still didn't detect the drive.
>
> I googled my brains out looking for similar things, and everything
> that I found seemed to say that I should run fdisk or cfdisk from
> the shell prompt, and prepare the drive for linux. That would be
> great, but neither of those commands is anywhere in the tree on the
> ramdisk that is installed as the temporary root partition. A "find"
> on the CD doesn't reveal those files there either.
>
> OK, so here's the really strange part. The laptop had a running
> version of Xandros Desktop 2.0 running on it, so it was already a
> running Debian system, with a single Linux partition on it. I
> wanted to play with 2.6.4 kernel, and KDE 3.2.1. Xandros installed
> perfectly on the same laptop (version 1.0 a year ago, then version
> 2.0 the two separate times that I installed it).
>
> I then booted from a Win98 floppy. I ran FDISK and created one
> large DOS partition. I then booted the debian sid cd again, and
> again, it doesn't recognize the drive.
>
> I'm stuck for new ideas of what to try to get the installation to
> proceed, and any suggestions would be very welcome!
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> P.S. Apologies if this is a duplicate. I just subscribed to the
> list today, and realized that I sent it from a different email than
> the one I subscribed with :-(
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