Re: sata boot disc & 2.6 kernel
Digby,
hanks for your help & apologies for replying direct to you. I clicked on list reply but I didn't check it.
I'll try your suggestion in the morning (UK time)
I'm on testing release.
Steve
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:25:45 +0100
Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org> wrote:
> Which release are you on?
>
> My suggestion would be to go through the motions of doing an
> install (ie boot from the install CD) and see if it detects
> the hard drive.
>
> If it doesn't, abort to a shell and look at the dmesg output to
> see what diagnostics are produced by the hardware detect.
>
> If it does work, look for differences in configuration settings and
> modules that are loaded. It may be that your kernel upgrade did not
> get the same hardware detection benefets of having the kernel selected
> during initial install, and hence didn't get modules selection and
> arguments setup properly.
>
> Hope that helps,
> DigbyT
>
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 08:00:55PM +0100, steve downes wrote:
> > The problem is:-
> >
> > It is a hard disc I am installing to not a cd I'm installing from.
> >
> > It isn't a new install just an apt-get install upgrade to the kernel.
> >
> > I might be missing something but I've gone through those pages twice now without finding anything relevant.
> >
> > The machine is still running the 2.4 kernel happily so I don't want to do a full install in the hope of is solving the problem. (It's my office server)
> > I just need to upgrade the kernel to run the new version of Linux terminal Server
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:04:40 +0100
> > Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org> wrote:
> >
> > > This fixed the problem with not seeing my sata CD for my Etch install:
> > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataAtapiHowto
> > >
> > > Have you tried setting atapi_enabled=1 in your libata module?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > DigbyT
> > >
> > > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 05:49:45PM +0100, steve downes wrote:
> > > > Just "upgraded" to 2.6 kernel using apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686
> > > >
> > > > It cannot see the sata disc which it boots from. It gets to
> > > >
> > > > Begin: Mounting root file system ... ...
> > > > Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...
> > > > Done
> > > > Begin: Waiting for root file system ... ...
> > > >
> > > > I have read all I can find & no avail & checked my bios for Legacy or similar - no joy
> > > >
> > > > Any pointers please? 2.4 installed fine & ran/runs off the Sata without problem.
> > > >
> > > > Steve
> > > >
> > > >
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