Thanks, Marek!

This seems to work splendidly. I still suppose it would be nice to have native
SATA support in Unattended in the future, though. If possible and necessary.

Regards,
Lars Ivar Igesund

Quoting Marek Tyc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Dear Lars,
> 
> In the bios there there are several options for sata : choose combined.
> 
> We had the same problem with kickstarting linux.
> Maybe this is THE solution for you.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
>  
> Marek Tyc
>  
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 1:10 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Unattended] Dell Precision 370/ Unrecognized interface type (boot
> device)
> 
> 
> I'm trying to use use Unattended for doing an install of a Dell Precision
> 370,
> using the linuxboot. At first I tried with 4.2, but it didn't recognize the
> SATA
> disk. Then I updated to 4.5 and it bombed on the EDD firmware. At first I
> thought it was the same problem reported by someone else (fixed in
> 4.6-rc1),
> but
> after getting the same error with the 4.6-rc1 bootdisk I looked closer.
> 
> I get (after the EDD facility is succesfully loaded):
> 
> *** Unrecognized interface type in /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/interface
> Unable to determine boot device at /usr/bin/find-boot-device line 208
> *** find-boot-device failed
> *** Dropping to shell
> 
> The contents of /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/interface :
> SATA         device: 0
> 
> 
> Looking at find-boot-device, I believe that this is indeed not supported
> (or
> looked after at all). Is there a quick fix for me to do or can I expect a
> fix in
> the next release?
> 
> Regards,
> Lars Ivar Igesund
> 
> 
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