Re: Install stalling with sarge.

From: CW Harris (charris_at_rtcmarketing.com)
Date: 03/25/04

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    Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:39:17 -0700
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    On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 09:16:28AM -0800, Ruben Lopez wrote:
    > hugo vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:
    >
    > > > I am trying to install sarge, but the installation doesn't seem to be
    > > > able to detect my hard drive. When I select the "Partition a Hard Drive"
    > > > option, nothing happens except the installation menu just returns to the
    > > > "Partition..." option. When I start cfdisk in ash I get "FATAL ERROR:
    > > > Cannot open disk drive". I have searched some of the buglists but I
    > cannot tell
    > > > if this is documented or has been resolved. Is there a way to get around
    > > > this?

    I have been working (a little) with this installer on a cheap desktop. I
    found that it hangs on the partitioning command. A little investigation
    shows that it seems to have to do with the ide chipset modules (it
    identifies my chipset as SIS5513 (from memory) and if I disable loading
    of that chipset it seems to read my partitions correctly.

    I haven't completely tested this out yet to verify exactly what is
    happening (late night, lack of sleep), but maybe try expert mode and
    selecting your chipset?

    For me, I could shell out (right after the first detection phase I
    think) and try "fdisk -l" on an already partitioned drive. It would show
    the partitions if the chipset selection worked, otherwise it would not.

    >
    > >
    > > Don't start another thread within one.
    >
    > Sorry... I cleaned out the headers so that the threading wouldn't show up,
    > but I guess my hack didn't work as intended.
    >
    > > And what pray tell kind of hard
    > > drive *do* you have?
    >
    > Well, pray tell, I am using a Maxtor 40GB drive, but I don't think the
    > problem is with the drive, since I can install woody and W*nd*ws normally on
    > this drive.
    >
    > > And what version of the installer are you running?
    >
    > Not sure... I have the sarge iso dated 3/22/04, but I don't know how to
    > determine the version of the installer.

    I was using the 3/20 ? netinstall businesscard.iso, and checked
    (quickly) the 3/22 businesscard.iso - same issue as above.

    >
    > > And how are you running it?
    >
    > Not sure what you are asking here.... booting from CD, and everything seems
    > to go fine until I get to the partitioning option. I have tried installing
    > both as normal install and expert (although I am hardly an expert!).
    >
    >
    >
    > Ruben

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