I´m desperate
to install debian eventhough it doesn´t seem to work with me.I had Suse
installed a year ago, but I don´t want to put up with there
funnyrc.config-thingy any more.It seems that my onboard HPT370
controller should be supported on the udma66floppies.I just got unlucky
and so it doesn´t work. I already received a few repliesby some other KT7
owners indicating that I´m not alone.I can boot into the setup assistant
just fine from the regular 2.2r2 CD, butthen I have no harddisk.There´s
an option in the setup menu that lets you load modules from floppy,and I
tried loading something from the UDMA66 driver1-4 disks, but then Ionly got
an error telling me that the system is unable to mount the floppy(???). Also
I´m not so sure if there´s a useful driver on those
disksanyhow.When I boot from the udma66 floppies it just stops half
way (see descriptionbelow) .I really don´t know what more to do.
Maybe I could boot from the CD bysupplying a bunch of boot parameters,
describing my disk. So if you have aclue what I (and many others) could do I
would really appreciate if you sendme a reply.Under Windows the HPT370
controller(ide2 ide3 ( counting from 0)) seems torun as a scsi
device.If you need any information youst ask me.Thanks a
lot.Alexander
Alexander writes: Sorry no solution from me.
I'm faced with a near identical problem usingthe HPT 370 on-board controller
with a 2theMax BX7 +100 motherboard(actually with five of them). So I'll be
interested to see the solutionif/when you get one.
Regards Jon Branch
--Original Message-- From: "Alexander Sawallich"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-boot[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 12, 2000 8:46:46 PM GMT
Subject: UDMA66 boot problem/HPT370 When I try
installing Debian 2.2r2 on my HPT370 Raid/UDMA100 controller,with the UDMA66
boot floppies, the system halts during the boot process.Why? Thnanks for any
help. I´m sorry this description got so long, but ifsomeone really wants to
help he might need some of the info below. I´m booting
debian from the UDMA66 rescue disk. The disk works fine atmy friends
computer (Promise UDMA 66 onboard) and I tried several ones withthe same
result. When I boot from the Debian 2.2r2 CD I can
successfully load the kerneland get into the install menu, but I have no
harddisk detected. I triedloading modules from the UDMA66 driver1-4 disks
but then I receive an errormessage saying : "Unable to mount disk".
I also tried booting the UDMA flavor from DOS (loadlin) but
then Ireceive the exact same result as shown below.
If someone knows some really good boot parameters (and exact use)
thatwill get my HPT370 controller to work with the standard flavor, that
mightalso help. Those are the last boot messages I
received. The earlier ones seemedunimportant.
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of
16384K size loop: registered device at major 7
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override
withidebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00
dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a IDE UDMA66 controller on
pci0:7.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings:
hda: DMA, hdb: DMA HPT370: IDE controller on PCI bus
00 dev 98 HPT370: chipset revision 3
HPT370: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: hde: DMA, hdf:
pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe408-0xe40f, BIOS settings: hdg:
pio, hdh: pio hda: CDR-8482B, ATAPI CDROM
DRIVE hdb: R/RW 4x4x24, ATAPI CDROM DRIVE
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override
withidebus=xx This is were the system
stops working. Nothing happens from here on. At a
friends computer the last line was followed by some lines referringto his
harddrive : Maxtor ... 512K cache ... I already tried
adding idebus=33 as a boot parameter, but the systemjust stopped one line
earlier. I´m not running a raid array. I just
connected my one and only harddriveto the HPT370 controller to take
advantage of the UDMA100 burst speed. I had the second
ide channel (ide1) disabled in the BIOS in case someonewondered.
Here´s a summary of my system Athlon
TB 900 Abit KT7-Raid Motherboard
IBM DTLA 307030 30GB UDMA100 harddrive connected
to HPT370 onboard Raid controller (ide2 master) 128MB
PC133 SDRAM Soundblaster PCI 128
Geforce II MX 32MB AGP video card SMC 1211TX
EZ-Card - PCI network card USB Mouse
Thanks a lot. If you are reading this line, I know that you
tried. Alexander
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