Re: install probs
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:37:01 -0700, Glenn English <ghe@slsware.com> wrote:
> I did a testing net install a few days ago. The system is 2.4.27 kernel,
> P4, 1G RAM, SCSI2 disk, IDE disk, SATA disk, RME soundcard, intel i810
> video.
>
> No probs with SCSI or parallel IDE, but the SATA disk doesn't seem to
> exist after boot (off the SCSI disk). The BIOS sees it, and the DeMudi
> system (a Debian derivative on the IDE disk) sees and mounts it as
> /dev/hde when I boot that disk. This happens with the kernel package and
> with my compiles. There was no problem with it under gentoo.
>
> I can't figure out what's happening. I've tried compiling kernels, but
> no joy. I got to the point of random choices in menuconfig, so I thought
> I might ask the list.
>
> Where is my SATA disk?
>
I'm not sure (don't use sata), but this seems an interesting resource
to start on:
http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
>From the looks of it, that other debian based distro uses the legacy
sata support.
greets,
Wim
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