Re: Debian installer and Dell Dimension 8400
Hi,
I am also the owner of a new Dell 8400 machine, with 2 disks in
raid1 configuration.
I have not suceeded in installing Debian. Some comments:
Joey Hess wrote:
Thomas Kirk wrote:
The problem is as following. First the debian installer wouldn't
recongnize the sata controller that computer is born with i searched
the web and solved it by switching to the console and manually
modprobe ata_piix module this controller needs. After that everything
about the partitioning went fine. The controller and disk is seen as a
scsi device.
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 266f (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2652 (rev 03)
00:1f.1 Class 0101: 8086:266f (rev 03)
00:1f.2 Class 0101: 8086:2652 (rev 03)
One of these is the pci id of the controller, but discover knows about
neither device (though the first is thought to be PATA and the second
some sort of SATA raid). What is the name of your SATA controller, and
do you know if you have a PATA controller too? Can you attach
/proc/bus/pci/devices so we can see which of these the sata_piix driver
uses, and if the other is used by some driver?
Here is the output of lspci on my 8400 from knoppix24 running on the
machine. It does not see the disks....
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 925X Memory Controller Hub (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 925X PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp.
82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC
Interface Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corp. 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW)
SATA Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown
device 5b60
0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5b70
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751
Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
0000:04:01.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970
[PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 33)
I install base system and write to the master boot sector
with grub. The computer boots but it halts around this line ->
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
I'd need more details about the messages just before the hang to hazard
a guess about the cause.
I know I must atempt to use the dmraid module [which is not in knoppix
nor in the installer],
and I am contemplating breaking the raid1 volume to get a disk marked
for raid and one that is not....
My experience so far is:
Machine works OK [without disks seeing the disks] using koppix24.
Using knoppix26, it hangs when init is starting...., must reset to do
anything else.
Using knoppix failsafe, it comes up with a good screen, but without
keboard or mouse, must reset.
Using Debian installer pre-rc2 both linux and linux26, it works until it
finds no disk partitions.
Hope this helps in getting Debian onto this machine!
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Regards,
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Matthijs Melchior Maarssen /\\
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