Bug#280598: marked as done (installation-report (failed))
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: debian.org, test version i386 of 08 Nov 2004
Date: 09 nov 2004
Team Debian,
Attempts to install i386/20041108/sarge-i386-netinst on a new Dell Dimension
8400 3.0GHz P4 with 4GB RAM and two SATA drives failed with a "no partitionable
media" error under the following conditions. The Dell BIOS lets you specify
the "SATA Operation" as one of the following values:
RAID Autodetect/AHCI = RAID if signed drives, otherwise AHCI
RAID Autodetect/ATA = RAID if signed drives, otherwise ATA
RAID On = SATA is configured for RAID on every booot
Combination = SATA/PATA combination mode
The machine shipped with two signed drives configured for RAID 1, and the
default bios setting was RAID Autodetect/AHCI. With that configuration,
booting with the 2.4 or the 2.6 kernel results in the "no partitionable media"
error.
Next I unsigned the drives so that they would not boot into RAID mode.
With unsigned drives, the only boot option that worked with the default 2.4
kernel was SATA Operation = Combination. The linux26/expert26 boot options did
not work for *any* SATA Operation setting.
I would dearly love to run the 2.6 kernel so I can exceed the 2GB process
address space limit. Please let me know if/when the 2.6 kernel will detect the
SATA drives on the Dell Dimension 8400.
Thank you.
BF
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--- Begin Message ---
We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful
The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet.
In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.
You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.
If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.
Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.
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