Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

On 3/18/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com > wrote:

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
>
>
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