Bug#38073: marked as done ([possibly just a hardware problem] need help installing)
Your message dated 23 Sep 1999 18:53:24 -0400
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and subject line no followup to our questions regarding the boot-floppies bug you reported
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
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Subject: need help installing
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 19:59:38 -0700
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: slink
This is my first time trying to install linux. I cannot get debian to
recognize my hdd. When I boot from the resc1440.bin floppy the F4 screen
says that I need to enter parameters for:
IBM PS/1 or ValuePoint (IDE Disk) hd=<cly>,<heads>,<sectors>
IBM Thinkpad floppy=thinkpad
I tried booting with no parameters and and after I chose color monitor and
qwerty keyboard it says that no hard drives were found and attempts to do a
net install. I also tried setting hd=26310,16,63 which I believe to be the
real params of my hdd. I also tried 16383,16,63 which is the max that drives
are allowed to report. I also tried these values for the hda param with no
success. (I don't understand the difference between hd and hda). I've tried
using the rescue disk from both the slink and potato dists. I realize there
is some 8GB hdd limit but I don't think that should matter. I'm wondering
if my hdd or controller are too new for linux. Anyway, I don't know what
else to try. I did send mail to debian-users, but no helpful response.
Please help! I really want to get debian installed on my machine.
thanks,
jeff
ps. here's relevant info for my machine. let me know if you need any other
stats.
architecture: i386
model: Gateway Performance 500 (PIII-500)
memory: 128M
hdd: Western Digital Expert AC313500, EIDE, 13.5GB
drive parameters (printed on drive label): LBA 26520480
c,h,s = 26310, 16, 63 ???
hdd controller: Ultra ATA/66
I used fips to partition my hdd to leave a 2GB partition at the end for
linux.
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To: 39644-done@bugs.debian.org, 38073-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: no followup to our questions regarding the boot-floppies bug you reported
From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
Date: 23 Sep 1999 18:53:24 -0400
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We have had no followup to our questions regarding the boot-floppies
bug you reported. Since we lack the information to help us fix the
problem, we are closing this bug in the interests of housekeeping.
If you do think the bug is really a bug, please followup on our
questions (and CC the bug at <nnn@bugs.debian.org>, where 'nnn' is the
bug number) and we shall reopen your bug.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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