Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386

To: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
Cc: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>, debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386
From: elijah wright <elw@stderr.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:51:08 -0600 (CST)
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> > Apparently beta3 has better SATA support.  Can you try?
>
> This may have something to do with device mapping in the BIOS -- I may
> not be feeding the right information to lilo and/or grub.  Or it may
> have something to do with the fact that my system doesn't appear to have
> a 'compatibility mode' for SATA -- lilo and grub may simply not support
> SATA natively.

my dell gx270 doesn't have compat mode for SATA either [in fact the bios
is pretty brain-dead] but grub doesn't seem to have a problem with it.

what kind of board do you have?  i think i missed that detail.

elijah

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