Bootstrapping onto bleeding-edge hardware [was: Re: Debain install fails on Intel P4C800 w/ WD800J drive (but Redhat 9 is ok)
Great resources, Greg! Thanks! ...Murray
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 23:24, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 21:25, Murray J. Brown wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've tried to install both Woody 3.0r1 & Sarge (2003-07-27) from an
> > ATAPI CDROM (40x/AKU) onto a PC with a new Intel P4C800 Deluxe
> > motherboard, a 200GB WD Serial ATA drive and a 80GB (WD800JB-00ETA0)
> > drive, but the install process just hangs while probing (or simply
> > loading the ide-mod-probe kernel module) for IDE controllers. At first,
> > I thought it might be the S-ATA support, so I disconnected that drive
> > but the probing still consistently fails at the 33.3% mark while trying
> > to detect the remaining IDE drives, even after trying various
> > permutations of BIOS settings.
> >
> > Redhat 9 installs cleanly so I know the hardware works. However, I'd
> > rather use Debian for consistency across all my systems (now that I've
> > eradicated Windoze).
> >
> > Suggestions anyone? Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Yes:
> Since the hardware is nice and powerful (err newer) You might have some
> great success using either of these two processes:
>
> http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DebianChrootInstall
>
> Or reference this post I made to this list a while ago:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg01080.html
>
> I use these processes to get Debian On VERY new hardware.
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