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Re: Cannot read partition table on disk.



No, I haven't. What should I look for there? I didn't change anything between
debian and ubuntu but ubuntu saw it as SCSI automatically.

--Ben Olive

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Shachar Or <dawnlight@lavabit.com> wrote:
On Monday 25 August 2008 14:09, Ben Olive wrote:
> I am trying to install debian on a computer with one IDE drive attached.
> Partman on the debian installer does not see a partition table on the
> drive though there is one and if I write a new one it still doesn't see
> it. When I load the ubuntu installer, it sees the disk as a SCSI (sda)
> instead of IDE (hda). Even though this disk is actually IDE, it somehow
> only works when treated as SCSI. How can I force debian to treat the
> device as a scsi device?

Have you looked into the options at the BIOS setup?
>
> --Ben Olive

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