On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:23:53PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install sarge on an old (Celeron 366) machine with a new > disk.
Thanks to all those who offered advice. To summarise: I jumpered my 80G disk to clip its capacity, so that my old Award bios would boot. For Linux to see this, with a recent (>=2.6.7) kernel, the ide driver needs the 'hda=stroke' option. The debian installer uses modules for all that, so putting it on the command line doesn't work - it has to go with loading the module. The module in question is ide_core, which is normally loaded implicitly when you load another module that depends on it. That doesn't allow for adding options, so I had to shell out and run modprobe ide_core options="hda=stroke" from the command line, before letting the installer start loading the other ide modules (which it does when looking for the CDROM, so I had to get in before that). Note also that the syntax is different: when using a built-in driver, just add 'hda=stroke' to the kernel command line; when using a module, it's 'options="hda=stroke"'. That lets the installer do it's thing, but it doesn't pass that on to the installed system. When I install debian, I usually create a root partition of around 2G, from which I set up LVM and so on for the rest of it. That all fits in the first 33.8G (naturally), so it let me carry on to build a kernel with the ide drivers built in (and in fact no initrd at all), which I then installed. Lastly I tweaked /boot/grub/menu.lst to add 'hda=stroke' (no 'options' stuff this time) to the command line, and I now see the full disk. I'm sure it's possible to get the initrd stuff set up right too, but I'm less familiar with that, so I didn't pursue that very far. Hopefully that helps anyone in a similar situation :-) What I really need, of course, is better hardware ... the PII 400 machine behind me is still clunking away building the kernel; I gave up waiting for it after about half an hour, and sshed in to work and built it on my P4 1.7 and copied it back in a fraction of the time (woohoo - the other one's finished now too!). Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
