Re: Newbie Install on i386 w/ SATA - boot help?

From: jon salenger (salenger_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 09/30/04

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    Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:26:32 -0700
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    Hi William,

    >I'd boot the Sarge install CD, go into "expert setup", and look for
    >something like "Make System Bootable.", to recreate the contents of the
    >MBR.

    At this very moment, I'm reinstalling in expert mode (expert26), as per your
    advice. After going through most of the process, though, it seemed that I
    had already made the system bootable in the previous install. During the
    partitioning process, you are able to set the boot flag on and off, which I
    did for the /boot partition. Here is the (last) partition table I included
    in my original email:

    >>So my current partitioning scheme is thus:
    >>IDE5 (hde) FREE SPACE

    >>IDE6 (hdg)
    >>Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    >>/dev/hdg1 * 1 31 248967 83 Linux
    >>/dev/hdg2 32 274 1951897+ 82 Linux swap
    >>/dev/hdg3 275 19457 154087447+ 83 Linux

    I'm assuming that the asterisk in column boot\row dev/hdg1 is what you were
    referring to. As you can see the boot partition was already marked with a
    bootable flag. Let me know if I'm totally out of touch on this.

    Oh, also...

    Installing in expert mode, I received this warning:

    "Linux kernel modules needed to drive some of your hardware are not
    available yet. Simply porceeding with the install may make these modules
    available later.

    The unavailable modules, and the deviceds that need them are:
    forcedeth (NVIDIA Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controle3r), sk981in (Galileo
    Technology, Ltd. Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter), medley
    (CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image Serial ATARaid Controller [CMD/Sil
    3112/3112A ]), ide-mod (Linux IDE driver), ide-probe-mod (Linux IDE probe
    driver), ide-detect (Linux IDE detection), ide-floppy (Linux IDE floppy),
    eth1394 (Firewire ethernet)"

    Are these based on actual hardware detection, or are they the result of my
    choosing to load all the drivers I was given the option for (not knowing
    which were unnecessary)?

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    Another thing... In a post I found on the debian-users list, I noticed that
    someone running SATA drives mentioned that the drives were successfully
    recognized as sd, not hd. Perhaps the problem's related to this.

    BTTDB (back-to-the-drawing-board)

    My best,

    Jon 

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