Re: Ant: Re: Ant: Re: Ant: detecting SATA2
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 03:39:16PM +0200, Peter Sheldrick wrote:
> The only difference between your setup and mine that i
> can see is that you installed debian on a SATA1 HD and
> i'm trying to install it on a SATA2 HD. Are they not
> supposed to be completely backwards compatilbe? With
> my recent experiences i dont think so. Is there
> anything i have to change in bios to make it run? When
> i switch the SATA2 controller off the pc hangs at boot
> which is strange because i plugged in my disc on the
> SATA1 slot so what does he need the SATA2 controller
> for? What do you mean when you say the Pre-Boot
> Execution Environment option failes? Does the PXE not
> start up or does an alteration of an PXE option not
> take effect? I'm reluctant to flash the bios - i never
> tried it - if it has nothing to do with the problem,
> since it is risky, more so because as you say it works
> without.
> When i try a debian installer with kernel 2.6.8 it
> hangs while partitioning. When installing debain from
> knoppix with debootstrap:
> debootstrap --arch --resolve-deps amd64 sarge /mnt/
> http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/
> it just exits at random stages - once at "I:
> Extracting modutils..." sometimes later, once while
> trying to chroot. However cheers for the help.
Is your knoppix 64bit? If not you can not debootstrap amd64.
You have to be running a 64bit kernel to do that.
Len Sorensen
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