Re: Install attempt - 2 problems

[Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>]

On Thursday 01 July 2004 15:08, Don Hayward wrote:
> > > 2) I'm trying to install the system on SATA drives.  They don't appear
> > > in the partioning menu.  I've been trying to follow the threads on
> > > this list about working around this, but I seem to have missed
> > > something.  The siimage driver shows up in the pci core, but the
> > > drives are not detected.  They are detected during post by the bios.
> > > They show up as 0 and 1.  I did modprobe siimage which ran with no
> > > output and no change in the partition menu.  So I guess I need a
> > > cookbook for this.
> >
> > I have the same board.
> > I never got the siimage driver working with the 3114 chipset, however the
> > sata_sil driver does work.
> >
> > Paul
>
> Thanks Paul. I also tried with the previous netinst image wich
> contained the sata_sil driver, but the response was like 'conflicting
> symbols' and no change.  Exactly what were the steps you used to make
> it work?

I use a custom kernel with the sata_sil driver compiled in, and without the 
siimage driver. I can't help you with the d-i kernels I'm afraid.

Paul