Re: d-i with Dell Dimension XPS M200s

[Jimen Ching <jching@flex.com>]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>> According to the Dell website, the M200s uses the SMSC FDC37C93xFR IO
>> controller.  I did a search of the 2.4.23 kernel source tree and only
>> found references to this chip in IrDA and the Alpha directory.  I see no
>> references of this chip in the IDE driver directory.  But a search on
>> google returns mailing list entries that imply people have installed
>
>According to http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/04/msg00339.html
>John H. Robinson has such a machine, so let's CC him.

While I was waiting, I downloaded the woody boot floppies and tried
booting the system.  The woody kernel detected the IDE controller and
drive.  It turns out that this SMSC chipset uses the PIIX3 driver.

Someone on irc.debian.org said this driver can be found in the cd-drivers
image in beta4, so I downloaded that and loaded it.  That seems to have
worked; I was able to partition the drive.  But then, I got an error about
unable to mount the root partition on '/'.  Bringing up the shell, I was
able to manually mount the root partition (/dev/ide/host0/ide0/lun0/part1)
on /mnt.  So I'll look further into this problem and let you know how it
goes.

Thanks for the response.

--jc

P.S.  If anyone knows why the mount of root failed, let me know...

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Jimen Ching (WH6BRR)      jching@flex.com     wh6brr@uhm.ampr.org