[Ilugc] Re: linux installation-problem (Binand
- From: shashikiran_ganesh@xxxxxxxxxxx (Shashikiran Ganesh)
- Date: Tue Aug 22 10:52:03 2006
no thats right because though linux does hardware probing on its own what
assigns the io addresses is the bios ..... so unless bios assigns a irq and
other stuff like that linux cant probe through but its not the other way
ruond ...... if bios detects doesnt mean linux has to detect
From: "Binand Sethumadhavan"
To: "Girish Venkatachalam"
CC: "Antano Solar John" , vinstce@xxxxxxxxx,
ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] linux installation-problem
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:52:30 +0200
On 21/08/06, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
If your BIOS doesnt detect it debian wouldnt either
I don't think this is correct. Linux does its hardware probing on its
own and does not rely on the BIOS to tell it what hardware you have.
Binand
I have several systems where the bios is too old to recognize the larger
capacity hard-disks now available (pentium III systems) and the hdd's being ~40
to 80GB IDEs. Linux has no problems detecting these disks once they are
labeled as 'none' in bios - i.e. disable bios checks on these disks. Of course
to boot you need a disk which is recognized by the bios (or is there a work
around for this?) and so I use older smaller disks for this on the primary
partition.
Regards the original poster's problem regarding sata detection - maybe he could
check if the disk is recognized with a live-cd...
Best regards,
Shashi
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