Re: Installing Sarge on Dell Inspiron 9400
Hi,
Yep the cd does load sata drives (libata, ata_piix). It was an issue
with /etc/fstab. I changed /dev/hda to /dev/sda and that worked. Thank
you. But there is still an issue with the sata drivers. I am able to boot
of the hard drive now and base-config starts up. However base config
can not detect the sata cd/dvd. "dmesg | grep ATAPI" shows :
ata2: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/33
ata2: WARNING: ATAPI is disabled, device ignored
"lsmod" shows :
ide_cd
cdrom
ata_piix
libata
scsi_mod
sd_mod
ide_core
generic
and a many others.
A google search indicated that adding a boot param
libata.atapi_enabled=1 should help. Doing so either in grub menu.lst or
at boot time still results in the same problem.
Just to confirm "uname -r" shows :
2.6.15-1-686-smp
As far as I could tell 2.6.15 should accept the boot param and sata
cd/dvd should be detected. I am clueless here. Could it be that ide_cd
is interfering with sata cd/dvd detection. Is there a way to remove the
ATAPI CD module from the installed kernel ?
regards
b thomas
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:52:47AM -0600, Stefan Srdic wrote:
> Are you sure that the cutomized installer used the SATA drivers? It is
> possible that the installer simply adressed the SATA hardware in
> ide-compatibility mode.
>
> If you really did use the SATA drivers to install the base system then
> you now need to generate a proper initrd for your system. The stock
> debian kernel images tend to load a generic initrd that does not
> function too well with SATA or RAID based systems.
>
> If the base installation has completed successfully then all you need to
> do is rescue the installation. Does that CD contain a rescue mode? If so
> then all you need to do is run the rescue program.
>
> >From there you can use mkinitrd to generate a new initrd. You can even
> edit /etc/fstab and change all references of /dev/sd* to /dev/hd* just
> to get your system booting.
>
> Stefan
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