Re: Unable to install Debian SID on new laptop :-(

[Hadar Pedhazur <hadar@unorthodox.com>]

That's an excellent suggestion, but I don't think it will actually 
help me. The drives aren't invisible to the disk-based boot loader, it 
just fails at the initrd stage. The drives are invisible to Lindows 
Live, but if I turn off the first ide, then the CD will be dead, so I 
won't be able to use Lindows Live in order to sense the disk which 
would then be at hda.

It's clever, but I'm either missing something even cleverer, or I 
think it won't solve my problem...

Thanks for the response!

Andrew Porter wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 20:46, Hadar Pedhazur wrote:
>
> > the drives were still invisible, even though the hde and hdg
> > lines were in dmesg.
>
>
> Just so that you know - you have 2 IDE controllers.  The non-promise one
> is hda,hdb,hdc and hdd - and your promise one hde,hdf,hdg,hdh - primary
> secondary accordingly.  Disabling the other IDE controller would in
> theory cause the promise controller to be seen as hda,hdb etc..