Re: Debian installer not recognizing high-numbered HD?
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.21
I-Gene Leong <mrp@pwrsrc.net> writes:
> On 22 Mar 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > I-Gene Leong <mrp@pwrsrc.net> writes:
> > > hdg: secondary 20G UDMA33 drive (which is where I want to put Debian)
> > >
> > > Now, booting with the udma66 disk is trouble-free and the boot messages
> > > clearly show hde and hdg being recognized. I can mount hdg from a console
> > > window. However, the Debian installer itself won't let me select hdg in
> > > Partition a drive and it won't recognize any partitions on hdg I made
> > > outside using cfdisk.
> > >
> > > I'm guessing this is just a little limit problem somewhere where you're
> > > not checking hd interfaces high enough, but I can't locate the source to
> > > the installer, so this is the best I can do, letting you know of the
> > > problem. Thanks in advance for anything you do.
> >
> > I thought I fixed this! Can you try the images at
> > http://people.debian.org/~aph/current/ ?
>
> Just did... same thing, I only see hde. Mounted /dev/hdg1 and /dev/hdg3
> from the console without a problem.
Ok, this mail is a bug report. To summarize, the devices are there, you
can mount or format or whatever /dev/hdg[13] properly, but dbootstrap
does not present /dev/hdg for formatting or anything.
Right?
> Here's dmesg:
>
> Linux version 2.2.18pre21-ide (root@arnor) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Sat
> Nov 18 19:41:46 EST 2000
> Detected 400915 kHz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 799.53 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 192860k/196544k available (1016k kernel code, 420k reserved, 2176k
> data, 72k init)
> Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)
> Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
> Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
> 512K L2 cache (4 way)
> CPU: L2 Cache: 512K
> CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02
> Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> Checking for popad bug... OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0730
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
> Starting kswapd v 1.5
> Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
> RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size
> loop: registered device at major 7
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> idebus=xx
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
> PIIX4: chipset revision 1
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> PDC20262: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 48
> PDC20262: chipset revision 1
> PDC20262: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PDC20262: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.
> ide2: BM-DMA at 0xa800-0xa807, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
> ide3: BM-DMA at 0xa808-0xa80f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
> hda: CREATIVEDVD-ROM DVD2240E 03/18/98, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> hdc: MATSHITA CD-RW CW-7586, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hde: Maxtor 53073U6, ATA DISK drive
> hdg: Maxtor 92048D8, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> ide2 at 0xd000-0xd007,0xb802 on irq 9
> ide3 at 0xb400-0xb407,0xb002 on irq 9
> hde: Maxtor 53073U6, 29311MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=59554/16/63, UDMA(66)
> hdg: Maxtor 92048D8, 19531MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=39683/16/63, UDMA(33)
> hda: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
> hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M AMI BIOS
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> Partition check:
> ATAPI device hdc:
> Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
> (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x3a, ascq=0x01)
> The failed "Read Cd/Dvd Capacity" packet command was:
> "25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
> hde: [PTBL] [3736/255/63] hde1
> hdg: [PTBL] [2489/255/63] hdg1 hdg2 hdg3
> VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER
> VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Driver version 1.13)
> apm: disabled on user request.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
> kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
> kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
> hde: hde1 hde2
> VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev ide3(34,1).
> VFS: Can't find a Minix or Minix V2 filesystem on device 22:01.
>
> I'm presuming the two VFS messages were caused by me attempting to access
> hdg. Anyway, hope this helps.
--
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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