Hi Steve,
On 7/02/2005, at 2:49 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Suggestions...
1. Are you booting a linux 2.6 kernel? ( Ubuntu users comments??? )
yep, the installer is running under 2.6, and Ubuntu would be under 2.6
when it installs - course it won't install.
2. Is the system bios up to date?
yep, tried that - its about a 2 months old, and there are no newer
updates.
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! )
Ha ha, well we *could* try another distro - after all Suse 9.2 Pro
installed alright (but with a different optical drive and a couple of
months ago) and it still works, but he would prefer Ubuntu on his
machine. I got Ubuntu onto his laptop fine and he really likes it, and
he wants his laptop and desktop to be as consistent as possible while
he learns linux. So I guess Debian testing with Gnome would be a
possibility. I am just really surprised Ubuntu doesn't like SATA.
Has anyone on the list installed Ubuntu on a SATA primary drive?
Thanks for your suggestions, keep em' coming :)
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.
