On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 06:10:15PM +1200, Steven Jones wrote:
> Image version: 4.0.r3 netinst iso.
>
> Machine: Whitebox, Asus P5K Premium Wi-fi motherbaird with Perc 3CDL
> raid controller, PCI MX200 graphics card.
> Processor: dual core celeron 1.6Ghz
Please note that this is fairly recent hardware. Your motherboard was
released after Etch.
Debian is slowly making progress on releasing Etch+1/2 which will make a
newer kernel available to the stable release, supporting more hardware.
> Several problems were encountered...the Asus P5K permium wi-fi
> motherboard has 6 internal sata ports (ICH9R) and one ide port with two
> e-sata (J-micron). The cd would only go through the detect CD stage if
> the sata dvd was on sata port 1, I tried it initially on 4 then 3 and it
> didnt work.
Seems like one of these SATA controllers are unsupported by the Linux
kernel in Etch (2.6.18).
> I next moved to an IDE DVD and got the same problem. I think what was
> happening was the cd detection was off looking for a cdrom on the raid
> card or adaptec 3940....at each test it locked up the box at 8% but the
> scsi hds lights were flashing, each in turn briefly.
The flashing is normal: drivers for each supported controllers are
loaded only just before the CD detection. Most SCSI cards that I have
seen initialize their disks in turn, making their light flash that way.
The freezing, and the other issues mentioned below remind me about the
dreaded SCSI terminators problem. Could you please fully verify your
SCSI setup?
> When I went back to the sata dvd drive and port 1 on the ICH9R the cd
> detect went fine. However I then encountered a terminal issue with the
> Megaraid module so was unable to install etch.
What do you mean by a "terminal issue"?
> I went back to 3.1 netinst cd […]
Neither Sarge nor 2.4 kernels are supported by the d-i team anymore.
Cheers,
--
Jérémy Bobbio .''`.
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