Happened to me too (chipset Intel 82801EB/ER, SATA disk, PATA CD/DVD burner). I managed to make Debian install with linux26 by manually loading piix, ide-generic and ide-cd before the bloody ata-piix gets loaded by debian installer. Otherwise CDROM would not be detected at all - the SATA driver somehow blocks it.
After installation I upgraded to 2.6.12. System booted up but CD was not functioning. To make CD/DVD work I had to rearrange drivers in the initrd as indicated in the link http://kerneltrap.org/node/3971 However, finally I was unable to turn DMA on the CD/DVD burner, so I gave up the BLOODY 2.6 thing and reinstalled with linux24 :-((( Krystof > -----Original Message----- > From: Herbert, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 3:44 PM > To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > Subject: Installation with SATA, RAID and kernel 2.6 > > I had some trouble figuring out how to do a new installation > of Debian 3.1r0a with kernel 2.6 using RAID1 and dual SATA > drives on a Dell Poweredge 750 (no hardware RAID). I couldn't > find any messages with a solution, but I've now figured it > out and this message will hopefully help someone else trying > to do the same thing. > > Using the installer CD, you can run the installer with the > 2.4 or 2.6 kernel. Since device files for SATA drives are > named differently in the two systems, and since the device > file names are stored in the RAID configuration, it is > necessary to do the installation using the same kernel as is > installed on the target system. The 2.4 kernel from the CD > loaded the piix module which properly detected the internal > CD-ROM on the IDE channel, and the two SATA drives on the > SATA channel. However, with 2.4 I had device names hdc and > hdd, which wouldn't boot later when the raid configuration > running under 2.6 couldn't find any devices with those names > (under 2.6 they are sda and sdb). > > Using the 2.6 installer kernel, it loaded ata_piix and found > the SATA drives, and later loaded piix, but it never found > the CD-ROM. I was stuck at this point until I finally tried > disabling the ata_piix module at the point where the > installer is trying to detect the CD-ROM hardware. That > loaded piix, which found the CD-ROM, and I could proceed with > the installation. > Before the disc partitioning step, the installer is aware > that it has detected hardware for which no module has been > loaded, and it again goes through a list of modules, > including the ata_piix module. This second detection process > loads the ata_piix, which properly detects the SATA drives. > From this point the installation proceeds normally: partition > drives, configure raids, install and reboot. > > This may be unique to the Dell Poweredge 750, but I suspect > not. What's interesting is that when the installed system > boots, it also loads ata_piix first, but the CD-ROM is > detected properly. Perhaps someone can explain why this > sequence doesn't work during the installation. > > - Mark > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
