Re: SATA drive problems in LENNY...
Thanks, Ron! The solution was noapic as a kernel parameter though. Mark
Allums' shot in the dark held the key. Then I tried to transfer my system
from the old 8.6G ide disk to the new 500G sata disk, following
instructions you seem to have gotten on another occasion: dd and
resize2fs. dd worked, resize2fs failed miserably... So right now I am
re-installing the system happily on the 500G sata disk.
Hint for the debian installation disk managers: Took me some time to
figure out how to add a boot parameter to the installation kernel on the
netinstall CD. Should be easy to include a menu item that gives the
standard for the minimum information that has to be entered at the boot
prompt:
boot: /install.amd/vmlinuz initrd=/install.amd/initrd.gz
and leaves a blinking cursor right there to add your own boot option (e.g.
noapic...) or press return for normal installation boot (as you would get
with the first menu item, install). Just a thought. Would have made my
life much easier and saved me one doomed boot to see what install is
booting... Not evident that a newbie would have figured this out as a way
to get at the information.
Thanks again, all you guys! Hope this makes it into the thread for future
reference...
Best, a happy Kai
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 07/15/08 00:53, Kai Martens wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > While upgrading to service pack 3 windoze died - so I finally got my wife
> > to work on my debian machine. Now I need to install debian on her amd64
> > compaq, and unlike 15 month ago this time I cannot give up. The SATA
> > drives are simply not recognized during installation. Threw in an old 8.6G
> > ide hard drive that I had salvaged, and installed the system. Below is my
> > dmesg output: the trail of the errors is clear, but even after a lot of
> > googling I still have no idea as to what the root cause might be. Could
> > not make sense of anything I found on the web. The chip is an ATI IXP 400.
> > The BIOS does not seem to allow me to mess with any drive settings...
> >
> > :-(
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> > Best, Kai
> >
> > P.S. Due to the high traffic I am not on the list. Please cc me in your
> > reply. - Will deal with the 8139too issue after I got the disk...
> >
> [snip]
> > ata1: EH complete
> > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
> > ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in
> > res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> > ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
> > ata1: soft resetting link
> > ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
> > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> > ata1: EH complete
> [snip]
> This is the best I could find from Google:
>
> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=275504
>
> - --
> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson LA USA
>
> "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New
> York is doomed."
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