On Friday 26 August 2005 23:03, james wrote: > I bought a new PC the other day. P4 3.0G with 64Bit extensions. > I tried the install of the 2.6. kernel and the CD/DVD was not detected. > Looking back through dmesg there was stuff about ide ports already in > use - rubbish. Not rubbish actually, but extremely accurate. Watch out with statements like that when you ask for help... See: http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/debian-installer/index#errata (the workaround listed there will probably work for you) Sata support in 2.6.8 kernel is limited. You may want to try the daily builds of the installer using 2.6.12 from: http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/debian-installer/ > I noticed the people who assembled it attached the CD/DVD to IDE0 and > the HD to IDE1 - thus the CD/DVD comes out on /dev/hda and the HD > on /dev/hdc. With proper Sata drivers the HD should be recognized as /dev/sda (scsi) instead of ide. > What more info is needed to track down the root cause and get the 2.6 > kernel to work? Use newer version of the kernel. 2.6.8 is unlikely to be fixed. Cheers, FJP
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