Re[2]: Intel 965 chipset and Debian Etch AMD64
Hello,
Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 5:48:10 PM, you wrote:
>> >> It seems, Debian Etch AMD64 installer is blind to CDROM on Q965 Intel
>> >> chipset. On SATA I have only one HDD and I have CDROM as primary
>> >> driver on PATA.
>> >> What can I do?
>> >
>> > In your bios, try setting the SATA to compatability mode indstead of AHCI
>>
>> Thank you, but I tried this.
>>
>> BTW, is this problem may be only Debain-related or rather
>> kernel-related?
> I believe it's kernel related. I recently purchased a G965RYCK board that had
> a similar (if not identical) problem. My solution (going from memory here[1])
> was to set the BIOS options to "legacy" or "compatibility" mode and to use
> one of the daily netinstall builds for testing (not Etch[2]). I also
> installed the 2.6.21 kernel from sid. It was more of a headache than I've had
> before installing debian, but not a huge deal.
> As I recall, the problem in my case was related to the Marvell PATA controller
> and the kernel's lack of a driver for it. The symptoms were sluggish reads
> from the CD and then the installer saying that it couldn't detect the
> installation cdrom.
Well, can be Debian Etch installed without access to CD-ROM, maybe
from HDD? Can be netinst copied into HDD in such way?
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