Re: sata boot disc & 2.6 kernel

Digby,

hanks for your help & apologies for replying direct to you. I clicked on list reply but I didn't check it.

I'll try your suggestion in the morning (UK time)

I'm on testing release.

Steve

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:25:45 +0100
Digby Tarvin <digbyt@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Which release are you on?

My suggestion would be to go through the motions of doing an
install (ie boot from the install CD) and see if it detects
the hard drive.

If it doesn't, abort to a shell and look at the dmesg output to
see what diagnostics are produced by the hardware detect.

If it does work, look for differences in configuration settings and
modules that are loaded. It may be that your kernel upgrade did not
get the same hardware detection benefets of having the kernel selected
during initial install, and hence didn't get modules selection and
arguments setup properly.

Hope that helps,
DigbyT

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 08:00:55PM +0100, steve downes wrote:
The problem is:-

It is a hard disc I am installing to not a cd I'm installing from.

It isn't a new install just an apt-get install upgrade to the kernel.

I might be missing something but I've gone through those pages twice now without finding anything relevant.

The machine is still running the 2.4 kernel happily so I don't want to do a full install in the hope of is solving the problem. (It's my office server)
I just need to upgrade the kernel to run the new version of Linux terminal Server

Steve

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:04:40 +0100
Digby Tarvin <digbyt@xxxxxxx> wrote:

This fixed the problem with not seeing my sata CD for my Etch install:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataAtapiHowto

Have you tried setting atapi_enabled=1 in your libata module?

Regards,
DigbyT

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 05:49:45PM +0100, steve downes wrote:
Just "upgraded" to 2.6 kernel using apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686

It cannot see the sata disc which it boots from. It gets to

Begin: Mounting root file system ... ...
Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...
Done
Begin: Waiting for root file system ... ...

I have read all I can find & no avail & checked my bios for Legacy or similar - no joy

Any pointers please? 2.4 installed fine & ran/runs off the Sata without problem.

Steve


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