Re: Installation Help: SATA Drive
On Saturday 15 November 2003 22:33, Erik Steffl wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 17:15, Justin Burke wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I could use some help getting Debian installed on a new machine with a
> > SATA drive. I've downloaded CD images for both sarge and sid, and both
> > installation methods hang at the same point:
> >
> > "Loading kernel modules
> >
> > Detected module 'ide-probe-mod' for 'Linux IDE probe driver'"
> >
> > I have reason to believe that the system is hanging because of the SATA
> > drive. I think that I need to use a 2.6.0 kernel. Is this right? How do
> > I create an installation CD with a different kernel?
>
> you need a fairly new kernel for SATA, 2.4.21 iwth ac4 patches, I
> think. If you have a large SATA drive (>130GB) you also need libata5
> patches from Jeff Garzik. I have 2.4.21-ac and manually applied libata5
> patch (and 250 GB Matrox on intel D865PERL motherboard)
>
> Some of the newer kernels might work without ac or Jeff's patches,
> hard to tell. Check the linux kernel mailing list archives (search for
> SATA)
>
I'm using a fresh from kernel.org 2.4.22 without any patches for my 80 gig
sata drive.
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