Barney Wrightson wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I'm trying to install debian 3.0 (woody) from CD to my Athlon PC. The >> installation program fails to find my hard drive (which other >> (commercial) distributions have located variously at /dev/hdg and >> /dev/hde). It merely invites me to supply a Hard disk driver on a floppy >> disk. >> >> The problem seems to be that my (sole) hard drive is _not_ on the primary >> IDE controller. It is on a secondary controller because this latter >> works at ATA-100 speed. >> >> The hard drive is in working order, and linux kernels can be successfully >> booted from it. >> >> My motherboard is an Epox EP-8K7A (or maybe an Epox EP-8K7A+ ??). >> >> Presumably, I can give the installation kernel some parameter(s) which >> will tell it to look at the third IDE controller to find a disk to >> install onto. Presumably, also, this is described in a fine manual >> somewhere I haven't yet been able to find. >> >> Would somebody please point me towards the appropriate documentation, so >> that I can get my system installed. Of course, if anybody is generous >> enough just to tell me what the pertinent parameters are, that would be >> most welcome, too. :-) >> >> Many thanks in anticipation. >> > > Which boot image are you using? I assume it is "vanilla" off of the 1st > CD. Try using "bf24" (boot off of cd 5 I think - or you can choose it > somehow off of CD 1) and see if that works. I have an Asus A7V which has > a secondary Promise ATA-100 controller onboard, and I am pretty sure it > was detected automatically when I used the bf24 boot image to install. > > HTH > Barney. > >
I second that. I just installed the Promise Ultra100tx2 in two different machines and used the bf4 boot floppies and all was well. Cheers, -Don Spoon- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
