Hex Star wrote:
I'd like to report that I believe I have the same or at least, very similar model HD as this person and am experiencing the exact same symptoms with LILO (999s all over the screen), and despite many suggestions from irc.debian.org <http://irc.debian.org> #debian, GRUB doesn't work either as when booting it halts with a error 17, which despite the configuration seeming fine still happens (and according to the grub manual that error means grub is halting because it is trying to mount an existant partition but the partition is formatted in a way grub doesn't know how to handle properly) seems like there's an issue with Debian and this drive...:-(..was attemtping this all with Debian Sarge (suggestions were things like, try running the grub installer from knoppix, try changing the root (hd..) entry in the menu.lst file, etc but no dice :-( ...even tried repartitioning and reinstalling both grub and lilo numerous times (and for lilo, tried both from mbr and from a partition numerous times but no go either way) and still no go)...also neither the default 2.4.... installer kernel or the newer 2.6 one seems to have megaraid included which I think should be included in order to allow debian to be installed on hp netserver systems whose HD setup takes advantage of the embedded HP NetRAID controller (like my HP NetServer LH3R does but I can't install Debian because it doesn't seem to have the megaraid controller...:-( )
Thanks. To summarize:This is an EPOX EP-8VTAI mobo with 2 80GB PATA drives and 1 WDC WD800 JD-60LU 80GB SATA drive that is connected *not* to the mobo but to an SATA150 RAID 2 port PCI Host Adapter, as only drive, not using raid.
Reason for this setup: Power up hangs in POST with the drive connected directly to the mobo.
The drive works fine in Knoppix 4.0.2: can be written to, partitioned, etc.With the Sarge 3.1r1 d-i in either grub or lilo the boot of the new partition on a PATA drive fails with 99999's on the screen.
As with the latest Etch beta 2 installer, either grub or lilo. As with a lilo that is run under Knoppix on a PATA drive. Trying lilo 1:22.6.1-7+b1 from Sid and backporting to Sarge. H
On 3/16/06, *Hugo Vanwoerkom* <hvw59601@care2.com <mailto:hvw59601@care2.com>> wrote:Hi list, I have a new SATA drive (WDC WD800JD-60LUA0) that I have problems with getting recognized by Sarge. Knoppix finds it OK, I can partition the disk, write to it, no problems. The Debian3.1r1 Debian Installer, finds it, identifies it, but with installation on another PATA partition the GRUB boot fails with 99999's over the screen. Same with Debian3.1r1 Debian Installer using expert26 and lilo: that boot also fails with 9999's on the screen. Booting into my normal Sarge with lilo hangs at the start with the drive connected. If Knoppix has absolutely no problems, I believe my problems are all software related. Knoppix finds it as /dev/sda. I created ext2 partitions 1-7, no problems. I was unable to run lilo from Knoppix: got errors that he could not find the right device mapper. Anybody have a clue as to what to google for, or what to do next to get a bootloader to run with the drive connected? Thanks! H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org <mailto:debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org <mailto:listmaster@lists.debian.org>