Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: debian.org, test version i386 of 08 Nov 2004 Date: 09 nov 2004
Team Debian, Attempts to install i386/20041108/sarge-i386-netinst on a new Dell Dimension 8400 3.0GHz P4 with 4GB RAM and two SATA drives failed with a "no partitionable media" error under the following conditions. The Dell BIOS lets you specify the "SATA Operation" as one of the following values: RAID Autodetect/AHCI = RAID if signed drives, otherwise AHCI RAID Autodetect/ATA = RAID if signed drives, otherwise ATA RAID On = SATA is configured for RAID on every booot Combination = SATA/PATA combination mode The machine shipped with two signed drives configured for RAID 1, and the default bios setting was RAID Autodetect/AHCI. With that configuration, booting with the 2.4 or the 2.6 kernel results in the "no partitionable media" error. Next I unsigned the drives so that they would not boot into RAID mode. With unsigned drives, the only boot option that worked with the default 2.4 kernel was SATA Operation = Combination. The linux26/expert26 boot options did not work for *any* SATA Operation setting. I would dearly love to run the 2.6 kernel so I can exceed the 2GB process address space limit. Please let me know if/when the 2.6 kernel will detect the SATA drives on the Dell Dimension 8400. Thank you. BF __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
