On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 11:18:49AM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna said > The SATA is on port 0, I don't think any SATA controllers are supported under 2.4.18 at all. > I tried giving hd=16383,16,63 at boot time but it does not make any > difference. That won't help if the kernel doesn't even see the controller. > I presumably will need a boot-disk having the latest kernel version. > Any suggestions for doing this, or any other way of getting round the > problem will be appreciated. Yah, you'll need a newer kernel version. Try looking at http://people.debian.org/~blade/ for newer boot floppies, or even try out debian-installer (http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/). Another option (which I would probably pick) is to pull the drive and controller, and put in another working Debian machine. Install Debian using the chroot deboostrap method (http://people.debiab.org/~walters/chroot.html) onto the new disk, and either build a kernel that supports the the controller or install a new kernel-image package that supports it natively. Once it's installed, move the disk and controller back to the original machne, and boot. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Lexis-Nexis un-Australian Qaddafi bank smuggle Ortega Hi, VeriSign! bob@d2826ebe8e417235f1d36b15fd9c7abe.com
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