On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:21:01 -0500, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am having some trouble to install debian on a system with an athlon > > 64 on a msi board with the relatively new ati xpress 200 chipset.
> Did XP require a driver disk to provide it with the SATA driver? If > not, then the bios is probably set to provide emulation mode on the SATA > controller, which in my experience (at least with intel chipsets) makes > it not work right in Linux. Linux tends to want SATA to be in native > mode, not any compatibility mode (or combined mode) of any kind. Thanks Lennart, this makes things clearer. It seems I was using the emulation mode. Although I read about it in earlier messages, I did not realise that not enabling RAID (even with a single harddrive) would enable the IDE emulation mode on this board. It seem that the RAID part is by Silicon Image, so I wil play around with the drivers... > I assume you used an installer with at least 2.6.8 kernel (sarge installer's > 26 > kernel boot option). Well, I tried a 2.6.10 kernel from an ubuntu release. But the AMD 64 debian releases from alioth behaved in a strange way. At startup it asks you to choose between linux, linux26, expert and expert26 but none of the *26 files are found... strange (probably just another filename). Anyway, I have found a 10Gig traditional IDE harddisk at work, this should solve my problems for the moment. Thanks for the help, I know what to look for now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
