Re: SATA disk drivers missing from Debian 5.0.3 network installer

[Rigoberto Corujo <rcorujo@yahoo.com>]

Hi Frank,

 

Thank you for your response.  I am familiar with the BIOS option you are referring to because I've had to set it before on the HP ProLiant DL1XX servers, but this is an HP BL2x220c G5 blade and no such option exists.

 

If I install directly from the DVD, which has the loadable kernel modules, the disks are properly recognized, which leads me to believe that the BIOS setting isn't the issue.

 

This is the Debian Installer I used to install over the network.

 

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz

 

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/linux

I also tried taking the libata.ko and ata_piix.ko modules from the "initrd.gz" that comes with the Debian 5.0.3 DVD 1 under the "install.386" directory and loading them when the Debian Network Installer was sitting at the shell prompt, but I got.

 

# insmod libata.ko

insmod: error inserting 'libata.ko' : -1 Invalid module format

 

The problem is that I will be doing all my installs over the network so I need for the Debian installer to recognize the SATA disks.

 

Thank you.

 

Rigoberto

--- On Sat, 11/21/09, Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be> wrote:

From: Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be>
Subject: Re: SATA disk drivers missing from Debian 5.0.3 network installer
To: "Rigoberto Corujo" <rcorujo@yahoo.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 2:13 AM

On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 11:06 -0800, Rigoberto Corujo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a new Debian user and am trying to install 5.0.3 over the
> network.  My server has SATA drives and the installer isn't
> recognizing them.  In other words, "cat /proc/partitions" shows
> nothing.

You might want to try configure your SATA controller in "Compatible"
mode in the BIOS (instead of "AHCI")

>
> I noticed that the network version of the "initrd.gz" file is missing
> the ata_piix.ko and libata.ko drivers.   These drivers are present in
> the Debian distribution, however.  I tried copying the distribution's
> ata_piix.ko and libata.ko drivers into the initrd.gz, but they won't
> load because "insmod" says "Invalid module format".   Does anyone know
> if there's a workaround for this problem?

Is Debian-Installer booting ? (the initrd in D-I includes all the
sensible drivers. BTW, on installed systems, the initrd is built with
'MODULES=most' in initramfs.conf, by default)

Which Debian-Installer do you use ?
Where did you get the .ko modules from ?

Franklin


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