Re: Cannot read partition table on disk.
On Monday 25 August 2008 22:46, Ben Olive wrote:
> 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.
Look for anything that may be related... Such as making IDE look like SATA
(although I've only seen the opposite).
>
> --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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