Re: PATA drives disappear during installation

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.

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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

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