Bug#351883: further info
On advice from a friendly user (Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I opened a second console (funny how one forgets about the old debugging techniques in these GUI dominated days and working so much with MS Windows as well), and run dmesg. Also did the same on another of my notebooks where everything worked smoothly. On the problematic machine the HD and its partitions are detected correctly, but the log ends with a lot of error messages somethng like: devfs_register( ... ): could not append to parent - err: -17 Looking closer the only difference I could see was that the CD drive showed up as hdb (i.e. attached to the same ide ide0) while on the other notebook they are attached to separate ide interfaces id0 and ide1 respectively. Hope this help to eliminate the problem Joe Nmeth
Bug#351883: partitions on harddisk not recognized (detected) during install
Package: install Version: 3.1 I am trying to install "Sarge" on a Compal DL70 with prepartitioned internal Samsung 0804H harddisk drive. During install the drive is correctly identified but shows up as if it held no partitions. (Install works properly on my somewhat older Clevo and Geircom notebooks) Clues: Slackware climbs on the HD without even blinking MS Win2k Pro shows the drive as unpluggable (icon shows up on the tray) and at [whatever it means] Location 0 (wich does not happen with the other two notebooks) Same with both 2.4 and 2.6 install kernels Under DOS Free Fdisk of FreeDOS correctly sees the partitions. Your help would be appreciated. Thanks Joe Nmeth C+C SYSTEMS PS. It is urgent as I am contracted my a company that exclusively use Debian and my other notebooks cannot be configured the required way (2GB RAM, 1680x1050 screen.)
