RE: RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed
Andrew,
That is the path I am currently on. So far I have moved the primary drive
(20 GB) over to the IDE controller (Intel 82371 PIIX4 chipset) on the
motherboard. The 250 GB drive is set as the secondary on the Rocket 133 IDE
controller. I am getting ready to install the 2.4.27-2 kernel from the
cdrom. I have already compiled the hpt302.o driver using my laptop running
debian sarge (kernel 2.4.27-2). Once I have installed debian on the
Optiplex, I plan to move the driver over and run the 'insmod' command.
Hopefully that will get the card recognized.
However, I would still like to know how to get the driver into the debian
installer image. It seems that there should be a way for the installer to
deal with this situation. Like maybe identifying hardware for which no
driver is available in the install and asking the user to provide it during
installation. Any thoughts?
Stan
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:andrew@farwestbilliards.com]
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:40 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:49:51 -0800
"Stan Banash" <debian_stan@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Matt,
>
> Yes I had tried to install the 2.6 kernel using both the linux26 and
> expert26 commands at the boot prompt. However, both failed. I then
checked
> the 2.6 Kernel image to see if the HPT302.ko driver was included - it is
> not.
>
> Thanks,
> Stan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Zagrabelny [mailto:mzagrabe@d.umn.edu]
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 2:21 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed
>
> On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:32 -0800, Stan Banash wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I am currently trying to build out a new Debian system
> > and am having some issues with getting the IDE PCI
> > card drivers installed. I'm relatively new at setting
> > up Debian and have been working this issue for several
> > days now. That said, here are the specifics:
> >
> > System:
> > Dell Optiplex GX1P, 768MB Ram, 600 MHz CPU (PIII),
> > 33MHz bus w/4 PCI slots, ATI RAGE PRO TURBO video
> > chip, Bios version A10, IDE (DMA/ATA) on board.
> >
> > New IDE PCI Card:
> > Highpoint Rocket 133 (Ultra ATA /PCI - 33/66)
> >
> > Hard Drives:
> > Primary Maxtor (20GB)
> > Secondary Maxtor (250GB) - thus the need for the Ultra
> > ATA card.
> >
> > Installtion process:
> > I installed the new card in the system and connected
> > the drives as specified in the manual, i.e. set the
> > jumpers and plugged them into the board.
> >
> > I am installing from a CDROM disk (Sarge) Linux Kernel
> > 2.4.2-27 (Yes I know it is not the latest available).
> > When the installation procedure gets to the
> > recognizing the IDE Drives for setting up the
> > partitions it fails to find the driver. After checking
> > the drivers on the RAM disk, I see that the needed
> > driver "HPT302.o" is not there. I have managed to get
> > the driver code from Highpoint and compile it against
> > the 2.4.2-27 kernel on my laptop.
> >
> > So this is where I am now stuck - How can I get the
> > HPT302.o driver file into the installation package in
> > the CD image so that the Debian installer can find it
> > and load it during installation?
> >
> > If that is not the best or easiest approach to take, I
> > would like to know. Otherwise, any advice that you
> > might have would be appreciated. I mean really,
> > others must have done this sometime.
>
> i have not done this, but....
> have you tried booting into 2.6 kernel?
>
> boot> linux26
>
> or
>
> boot> expert26
I'm not too sure how this works, but you need to boot into a kernel that
includes that module. but it sounds like the module is not included on the
disk.
Can you see the disk thats attached to the motherboard (primary Maxtor)?
Can't you just install to that disk and then tweak it all later? once you've
got a bootable kernel on the one disk, you can install the drivers you need
to access the other disk and move on from there.
A
>
> -matt zagrabelny
>
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