Re: PATA drives disappear during installation

ajp wrote:

David Bolt wrote:

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, ajp wrote:-

I'm stuck and don't know what to try next and until I can get past this
problem I'm without a home server.

I'm building a new home server based on an Asus P4B with a PATA HDD and
DVD-RW and 4 x SATA HDDs. The build seems Ok and boots fine but when I
try to install OpenSUSE 10.2 the PATA HDD and DVD disappear :(

It sounds line it's loading the wrong kernel module for the IDE
controller, or it's not loading one at all.

<Snip>

I do have a machine on the LAN running with an image available via nfs so
I can continue the install over nfs but when I go into Custom
Partitioning there's sda, sdb, sdc, sdd but no sign of hdX.

Definitely sounds like a wrong, or no, IDE controller kernel module is
loaded.

If I boot from a System Rescue CD and get gparted up all the drives are
there so it's not (generic) Linux.

Probably because that's loading the ide-generic module rather than
trying to find an exact match for the IDE controller.

What can I do to get OpenSUSE to see both the PATA and SATA drives during
install?

When you get to the boot-menu on the DVD, highlight "Installation" but,
before you press return, type the following:

insmod=ide-generic

That will force the kernel to use a generic IDE controller kernel module
and it should see the IDE devices.


Regards,
David Bolt


Thanks,

My bad - it's actually an Asus P5B M/B and the system also has an Adaptec
2940UW controlling a 36Gb SCSI HDD and external DLT.

Ok I managed to get somewhere by just running the Installation and then
loading kernel modules 'generic' and 'pata_jmicron' giving ...
/dev/sda - /dev/sdd SATA HDDs
/dev/sde SCSI HDD
/dev/sdf PATA HDD
/dev/sr0 DVD
Now I just get GRUB errors on the installation reboot (Error 15 IIRC - I'm
working on it)

In the list of modules 'generic' and 'pata_jmicron' are mentioned and
marked with '+', after loading this changes to '*' - I'm sure there's some
documentation on this somewhere if only I could find it.

Alan


I've installed a minimal Text system on the PATA drive and set it up as the
secondary boot (after the DVD) and I'm getting

GRUB Loading stage1.5
GRUB Loading, Please wait ...
Error 17

This build was supposed to be fairly straight-forward but I've now been at
it most of the day and I'm slowly going crazy.

Alan

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