Suggestions... 1. Are you booting a linux 2.6 kernel? ( Ubuntu users comments??? ) 2. Is the system bios up to date? 3. Have you thought of using a distro that does support SATA well? FC3? Debian testing? Maybe even Gentoo ( can't comment on that one... I'm doing my first install as we speak, and I'm finding it extremely convoluted and tedious - a few well placed scripts would make it sooooo much less painful! )
Steve On Mon, February 7, 2005 2:32 pm, Hugo Vincent said: > Sorry to do this, but anyway: **BUMP** > > Someone must have some ideas? Please :) > > -- Hugo. > > On 5/02/2005, at 4:58 PM, hjv15 wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Last weekend I tried to install Ubuntu on a friends PC without luck >> (apparently the optical drive was unsupported...), and this weekend I >> gave it >> another go. We narrowed down the problem, and found it to be caused by >> the >> fact that his primary hard disc is on a SATA bus, and somehow as a >> result of >> this, it can't see the CDROM drive. It wants to insert the SCSI cdrom >> module, >> but breaks when it tries to automatically insert it - manually >> inserting the >> module also breaks (i.e. hangs). >> >> The main hard disc appears to be detected - there is a /dev entry >> called: >> /dev/scsi/disc0/bus0/target0/lun0/part0 through 7 >> (the correct number of partitions for the disc), but neither the VFAT >> partitions or the old EXT2 partitions (from an old SUSE install) could >> be >> mounted (manually). >> >> We tried a bunch of options in the BIOS too, including so-called >> "Combined >> Mode" which makes the SATA channels look like IDE channels, and >> "SATA-only" >> mode which makes the other PATA ide channels look like SATA devices. >> We even >> tried buying and connecting up a SATA-to-PATA adapter from DSE to make >> the >> optical drive look even more like a SATA device but that didn't help. >> Interestingly there are no /dev/hd* entries at all (in any of the BIOS >> modes). >> >> I thought we could make an ISO image of the CD and put it on the old >> ext2 >> partition, and mount that partition, then mount the ISO as loopback, >> and >> install off that? but couldn't mount the ext2 partition like I said >> before. >> >> Any suggestions? We are pretty much at the end of our tethers... >> >> Regards, >> Hugo. >> >> > > -- Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
