[Sisuite-users] Problem with image on SATA drives

[Ali Norcott]

Hi,   I’m installing onto a Precision 380 with 1x SATA HDD. I boot from CD and the image downloads from my server. I notice some messages at the start about partitioning /dev/hda1 etc which I wouldn’t expect to see as my machine is a SATA drive so I’d expect /dev/sda. The files install but when the install completes I am unable to boot the machine. If I boot from a grub floppy (to try to install grub) and do root (hd0,0) I get a message saying the partition doesn’t exist. I’ve checked and amended the /etc/fstab entries as per a solution in a previous posting so my entries are:   Proc /dev/sda3          -           / /dev/sda2          -           /boot /dev/sda1          -           none     (swap)   I’ve rerun the si_prepareclient and si_getimage but to no avail. If I boot from a floppy with fdisk on it there are no partitions showing. Some of the messages just before I get the “I have been done…” message are as follows:   Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems Could not find device for /boot. Nor found or not a block device. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation or string at /usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Grub.pm line 160   Does anyone know what I need to do to get this working?   Any help would be very much appreciated. I feel I’m very close to getting this working.   Regards, Ali