On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:23:03PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Martin Michlmayr wrote: > >Apparently beta3 has better SATA support. Can you try? > I did. :-P > Here's the lowdown: the installer basically works and installs the > system. Unfortunately I can't get either grub or lilo to work, so I > can't boot it. > 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. > If you can help, please do. :-( With an Intel ICH5 RAID controller running in normal SATA mode (not compat mode), I was able to install d-i successfully and make the system bootable with lilo. This did require hand-editing of the lilo.conf, precisely because of the BIOS device mapping: boot=/dev/hde disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 HTH, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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