[Ilugc] linux installation-problem
- From: stylesen@xxxxxxxxx (Senthil Kumaran S)
- Date: Mon Aug 21 20:16:12 2006
On 8/21/06, vinodh kumar <vinstce@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
i have a problem in installing debian 3.1 sarge in my computer
... problem is linux doesnot detect my harddrive...
Why don't you try the default kernel ie., 2.4. I had the same problem
yesterday when I tried to install debian in a Dell inspirion 6000
laptop which had and ATAxxx type 80 G harddisk. After going through
many forums and lot of googling I found that debian install without a
glitch if we try the 2.4 kernel ie., the default one, in dell
inspirion and it worked. Also I found from many forums that support
for ATA type hard disks was somehow broken in the development tree
after >2.4.27 kernel development... May be it may be resumed in some
latest kernel development trees.
Also I met with the same problem some one year before while I was in
college trying to install debian in newly procured HP desktop machines
which had SATA harddisks. Then also we used 2.4 kernel from the debian
installer and the installation went smoothly ie., the SATA disk was
detected.
Its always easy to compile 2.6 kernel from this point once you have
your 2.4 kernel installed.
Another problem was when I found it difficult to install debian in a
HP ML350 machine some 4 months back which is a server grade machine.
This time the problem is different everything went fine and it failed
in the last step ie., during the grub installation. This was basically
due to the naming convention which HP followed for naming the raided
disk, they call it something like this /dev/cciss0, /dev/cciss1, etc.
Due to the above naming convention grub searched for /dev/hda which
was unavailable. I was trying hard to get a solution for the above and
I got one which involved getting into the terminal during the
installation changing the device.map file to point to /dev/cciss for
hd0. Some time later the easiest solution I got was to get the latest
installer build by the smartest and fastest working debian community,
which solved the naming convention problem introduced by HP.
So I ll suggest 2 solutions:
1) Try installing with 2.4 the default kernel shipped with Debian 3.1
2) Else go for downloading the latest installer from debian.org
I would recomend 2) because for every new type of hardware that is
available in market debian guys comes with a fix in a month or two. So
give it a try :)
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