Re: installation/boot trouble in SUPERMICRO P8SAA SATA mode
Hello Len,
> The lspci info is really helpful since it actually gives us a list of
> what hardware you have. I sure don't know what a supermicro P8SAA
> uses
> as chipset. I do know how to read lspci output though.
I know, unfortunatelly I'm not by that machine at this point. I know it
uses an Intel ICH6R
>
> One possibility is that your chipset isn't supported in 2.6.8 yet but
> of
> course ide emulation works fine with ide-generic.
i think it does, maybe not the right one.... I don't know....
> The other posibility is that it would work great as long as you never
> turned on pata emulation in the first place and left it in normal mode
> during install and use.
I did try a fresh install with SATA, both with raid 1 and non raid.
I must've done like 10 fresh installs in all different ways, but I only
found worth mentioning the 3 on the report.
>You might have to load the sata driver manually
> during install, but that isn't too likely, although it does happen
> with
> some new chipsets.
during the initial install it detected a device, successfuly loaded it,
and let me partition the drives. Once that was done, the basic packages
got installed on the drive.
My problem was the subsequent restart, where there was no sign of a MBR.
the thing would attempt to boot from the NIC and CDROM. Not even with
lilo it worked, it didn't even shot LI or anything else, just like there
was no MBR
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