ons, 10,.11.2004 kl. 11.14 -0500, skrev Ove Kaaven: > I've just got myself a machine with a Asus A7V600-X motherboard, which > has VIA KT600 northbridge and VT8237 southbridge. It has SATA, but my > hard disk is currently plugged into the regular IDE connector (with the > regular UltraDMA 133/100/66 stuff), though I believe the disk might > support SATA if I wanted to use it. > > Anyway, what I wanted to do what to create sarge netinstall floppies and > do a network install over the cable modem. But there's a tiny problem: > The kernel on the boot floppies won't recognize the IDE controller. It > doesn't seem to think there is one. The only message about IDE in the > kernel log is the presumably-normal idebus 33MHz stuff. If I > cat /proc/pci, the IDE controller is seen at 0.15.1 (while the SATA RAID > controller is 0.15.0), but the kernel doesn't seem to even try to probe > it during boot, much less actually find my hard drive. (The BIOS is > happy seeing the hard disk though.)
I figured it out. Apparently it was some kind of debian-installer problem, not a kernel or motherboard problem. After trying a lot of things, I realized that the way the boot floppies work is that first they connect to the net, and ask you for a Debian mirror, then they download kernel modules from that mirror, including the IDE modules I needed. This process failed with the sarge floppies I used, for some reason. In retrospect, there are two possibilities for why: 1) the sarge floppies are outright broken and won't work 2) the sarge floppies are only slightly broken: I did mess around quite a bit with selecting the mirror (because my net connection was not actually working quite right, a transparent proxy was blocking things and stuff, which it took me a while to realize and fix). It's possible that this made the installer do a failed hardware autodetect and module load, and did not try again after I had fixed the net connection, killed dhclient, went back to the network setup phase using the installation menu (needed to get a new IP address from the DHCP server), re-picked a mirror, and tried to continue the install from there. Anyway, the daily snapshot boot floppies worked fine (though of course this time my net connection was fine from the start), so now I got Debian installed. Unfortunately for the curious, I had already overwritten my original sarge floppies with the daily snapshots by the time I had this figured out, so I did not check whether the sarge boot floppies would have worked if my net connection was OK in the first place. I just went with the snapshot floppies to do the install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
