Hi, Yep the cd does load sata drives (libata, ata_piix). It was an issue with /etc/fstab. I changed /dev/hda to /dev/sda and that worked. Thank you. But there is still an issue with the sata drivers. I am able to boot of the hard drive now and base-config starts up. However base config can not detect the sata cd/dvd. "dmesg | grep ATAPI" shows :
ata2: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/33 ata2: WARNING: ATAPI is disabled, device ignored "lsmod" shows : ide_cd cdrom ata_piix libata scsi_mod sd_mod ide_core generic and a many others. A google search indicated that adding a boot param libata.atapi_enabled=1 should help. Doing so either in grub menu.lst or at boot time still results in the same problem. Just to confirm "uname -r" shows : 2.6.15-1-686-smp As far as I could tell 2.6.15 should accept the boot param and sata cd/dvd should be detected. I am clueless here. Could it be that ide_cd is interfering with sata cd/dvd detection. Is there a way to remove the ATAPI CD module from the installed kernel ? regards b thomas On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:52:47AM -0600, Stefan Srdic wrote: > Are you sure that the cutomized installer used the SATA drivers? It is > possible that the installer simply adressed the SATA hardware in > ide-compatibility mode. > > If you really did use the SATA drivers to install the base system then > you now need to generate a proper initrd for your system. The stock > debian kernel images tend to load a generic initrd that does not > function too well with SATA or RAID based systems. > > If the base installation has completed successfully then all you need to > do is rescue the installation. Does that CD contain a rescue mode? If so > then all you need to do is run the rescue program. > > >From there you can use mkinitrd to generate a new initrd. You can even > edit /etc/fstab and change all references of /dev/sd* to /dev/hd* just > to get your system booting. > > Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
