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Re: Install Sarge on a Vaio VGN-A416M

Christian Perrier wrote:


Quoting Anthony (anthony.hocquet@gmail.com):

Hi everybody,
I've just bought a Sony VAIO laptop : VGN-A417M. By the way, the installer of Sarge doesn't detect my HDD because my SATA chipset (ICH6) wasn't supported in kernel 2.6.8. This is the result of "lspci" : 

lspci | grep -i sata
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03) 


Could you please give us the output of:

(lspci ; lspci -n) | sort



vaio ~ # (lspci ; lspci -n) | sort
0000:00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:2590 (rev 03)
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03) 
0000:00:01.0 Class 0604: 8086:2591 (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 
0000:00:1b.0 Class 0403: 8086:2668 (rev 03)
0000:00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03) 
0000:00:1d.0 Class 0c03: 8086:2658 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03) 
0000:00:1d.1 Class 0c03: 8086:2659 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03) 
0000:00:1d.2 Class 0c03: 8086:265a (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03) 
0000:00:1d.3 Class 0c03: 8086:265b (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03) 
0000:00:1d.7 Class 0c03: 8086:265c (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) 
0000:00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:2448 (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:2641 (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03) 
0000:00:1f.1 Class 0101: 8086:266f (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03) 
0000:00:1f.2 Class 0101: 8086:2653 (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03) 
0000:00:1f.3 Class 0c05: 8086:266a (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 
0000:01:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
0000:01:01.0 Class 0607: 104c:ac8e
0000:01:01.2 Class 0c00: 104c:802e
0000:01:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller 
0000:01:01.3 Class 0180: 104c:ac8f
0000:01:01.3 Unknown mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCI7420/PCI7620 Dual Socket CardBus and Smart Card Cont. w/ 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Cont. an 
0000:01:02.0 Class 0280: 8086:4220 (rev 05)
0000:01:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05) 
0000:01:03.0 Class 0200: 10ec:8169 (rev 10)
0000:01:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) 
0000:03:00.0 Class 0300: 1002:3150
0000:03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M24 1P [Radeon Mobility X600]
I'm wondering if I have to modify initrd (add new udeb modules), or modify kernel used to boot : install/2.6/vmlinuz
I've tried to modify this kernel by adding support of ICHM in the kernel but boot fails while trying to mount rd/0 (VFS cannot find root device or something like that), just before displaying the debian-installer in framebuffer. 

Is there a way to install Sarge on my laptop ? ;)



You migh want to try out the daily build images you can find from
http://www.debian.orgdeval/debian-installer
Well, I've tried etch current release (9 July) and sid_d-i current (13 July) and just sid_d-i provide a 2.6.11 kernel. By the way, it installs a 2.6.8 kernel so I encounter problem at boot :/ 

I'm going to try dth daily release and we'll see ;)
At least, I really would like to know how could I change the setup kernel and/or add the good module to the initrd. I've tried to add udeb module from sid_d-- to sarge initrd, but it doesn't load anything during installation : filesname aren't correct in my opinon (installer just look for 2.6.8 udebs). 

P.S: Excuse me if there's a lot of mistakes in my text, I'm french ;p

Anthony Hocquet
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