At 23:51 12.03.98 -1000, you wrote: > >Hi All, > >I've been struggling as a newbie both to Linux and programming to prepare >adequately to install Debian without too many tears. Been at at it for >four days days now, reading docs/faqs, preparing my fully-functional (at >the moment Win95 based) Quantum 3gb hd for a new Linux partition, writing >installer floppies, etc, all in the hopes of being able to install this >U-beaut OS called Linux... but today was the worst. I booted from the Deb >Linux 'rescue' floppy, got as far as Linux reading my HD table, when it >told me simply "Can't find hard disk"... this was under the Hamm installer, >but the Bo behaved exactly the same. > >Game Over, Man. What can i do now? From what few messages I can read >about Linux' interpretation of my hardware (scrolling up at lightspeed), it >seems as if it can't identify my (PCI-based) Promise IDE hard disk >controller device. Win95, even FIPS had no problem reading the HD, so what >gives?
First, try "dmesg | more" to read all of the startup messages. Then check if all the cables are properly fixed. (same thing happened to me with te CD-ROM) :D >I am just about ready to fold up and go back to my pitiful Win95 existence. >Can anyone help? I have checked the hd-controller-mboard cabling, it seems >fine... > >I was able to glean this much on what Linux could recognise of the Promise: > >"RAID bus controller: Promise Technology unknown device (rev 1). >Vendor id=105a. Device id=4d33." > >My system is a GW2K Pentium II 266, 3.2gb IDE Quantum UDMA Fireball, >Promise PCI UDMA controller Next, get Quantum Disk Manager to partition your hard drive. Try reinstalling bo from the rescue floppy. >thanx in advance for any advice, > >Andre M. Czausov >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Helmut ----------------------------------------------------------- Accept the challenge! http://fbma.tuwien.ac.at/~e8426331/ ... and write to me ! ----------------------------------------------------------- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
