Hi there,
I did an install of Debian onto such a machine. Since everything is
Cenntrino technology from IBM all hardware works as it should. There is
only one exception though: The Ethernet interface is a "Marvel Yukon
something" and it does not work at all. Even not with the new
replacement driver for the classical "sk98lin".
The trouble is now to install debian withough network. You need either a
local mirror (I did it with an external drive) or with the CDs. Since
W-Lan does work you can install a basic system with wireless-tools et al
and use wlan afterwards to install the rest.
Concerning serial ATA:
If you use a CD-Installation you should install it with "kernel 2.4"
(the boot option is called "install24"). This is because the 2.6 kernel
does recognize the hard disk as SATA and can not use the CDROM. If you
use kernel 2.4 for installation it uses PATA for both harddisk and cdrom.
After installation of the base system you can install a 2.6 kernel. to
be able to use the CDROM with Serial ATA consult:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_SATA_and_Linux
I used the trick with getting rid of the IDE drivers and using the
Serial ATA drivers for CDROM access.
To achieve this, I set the piix (for IDE) and ide-generic modules on the
blacklist for initramfs-tools and ahci in the module list. you also need
to set the Kernel command line as described in the thinkwiki.
In general: The information provided in the ThinkWiki holds for all
centrino notebooks. (the R52 Thinkpads are all Centrino)).
Maybe you could describe your exact problem in more detail if this
information does not help.
Have fun with Debian,
udo.
Miguel Angel Piquer wrote:
Hi boys, someone has installed Debian into a Toshiba with SATA?...i couldn't.
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