Re: Boot from SATA + Network
Well, I was finally successful.
Here my installation notes:
System:
DFI LanpartyUT nforce3 250gb
AMD Athlon64 2Ghz@2.25Ghz
IDE NEC 3500 DVD Burner
200GB SATA HDD
For the Mainboard Compatibility list:
ata: ? (probably nforce - worked right away)
ata raid: I dont use it
sata: sata_nv
scso: -
network: forcedeth (nv_net - the nvidia binary driver should also work, didnt
test it though)
sound: intel8x0
Installation notes:
1. I used the latest pure64 netinst iso.
2. First of all, my USB Keyboard didn't work during the installation, although
my BIOS should make it usable - I could type on the boot prompt, but not in
the installer.
3. The installer recognized my Firewire port as network device, but not the
onchip NIC. I had to switch to a console and manually load the forcedeth
driver. then I used ifconfig to start the eth1 device (not sure if the
installer could have done that too..)
4. I used XFS for my root partition.
5. First I had problems with GRUB, wich seems to have trouble on XFS
partitions, so I created a 20MB /boot partition with ext2 (during the second
installation - grub ruined the first one)
6. After the computer was rebooted to finish the installation, I kept reading
messages about sata drives being added and removed again (I forgot the actual
wording of the message) - they messed up my whole screen. I found some posts
about that problem in the internet and found the solution: After disabling
all unused SATA channels/controllers in my BIOS, the error message was gone.
The rest went pretty straight forward, this email is sent from my new
system! :-)
regards and thanks for the help!
Jonas
PS: Please CC me in any replies, I'm not on the list (yet?).
Am Donnerstag 11 November 2004 06:50 schrieb Bob Proulx:
> Jonas Diemer wrote:
> > PS: Please CC me in your replies, I am not subscribed to the list.
> >
> > I get a kernelpanic, saying that the root filesys couldn't be mounted. I
> > guess this is because the sata driver (I believe it is sata_nv) is
> > compiled as a module. Am I correct?
>
> Almost certainly.
>
> > What would you suggest - how should I get my system installed?
>
> Boot from the DFS iso.
>
> http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs
>
> Among other good stuff this bootable cd image provides a grub boot.
> At the grub boot prompt you can provide both the kernel and the
> initrd. The process should go something like this for your /dev/sda3
> boot, assuming I transposed things properly for that.
>
> root (hd0,2)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-amd64-k8 root=/dev/sda3 ro
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-3-amd64-k8
> boot
>
> Even if that does not work the bootable cd image is useful to further
> debugging efforts. If nothing else you can borrow the kernel and
> initrd from that disk and install them to your drive.
>
> Bob
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