On (25/07/05 22:30), Grant Thomas wrote: > I have a problem getting the Debian Installer to recognize my SATA > controller. > My computer is a ST20G5, a Shuttle small form factor PC. > Currently I have an 80G SATA drive, and a 120G PATA drive to work with. > I have been able to setup Debian with no problem on the PATA drive, but I > would rather have the SATA working. > I have confidence that the hardware is good, as I have installed XP to the > SATA drive, and it works flawlessly. > > The SATA conrtoller is a ULi M5287. > > The methods I have tried are: > Sarge netboot,netinstall,businesscard CD images and the last few daily > builds of the netinstall and businesscard CD for the i386 > and the AMD64 sections of the ports. > > I am at a loss of what to do, but have only come up with some information > that may help in fixing this problem. > Working off of a previous post by Jim Blake, I have the outpus of lsmod > and lspci -v. > My files are not after the hardware detection, as indicated in the > previous thread, but on my installed debian system on the same > machine. > > At this point the SATA is not crucial to the system working, but I would > prefer to keep this entire drive(PATA) for data only. > > If it is not possible at this time to configure the drive for boot, I > would also be interested in detecting the device and using > it inside my current Debian install. > > Thanks for any help anyone may throw my way. > Grant
If you already have Debian installed on the PATA drive you could load the necessary modules (for SATA) using 'modconf'. You could then use chroot to install a debian system on the SATA drive. However, it would seem you want to do a fresh install and the installer is not picking up the SATA drives. Try # expert26 at the boot prompt. It will then give you access to many more modules for the install; I haven't checked the compatability list for the SATA controller. Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
