Shachar Or wrote:
On Monday 25 August 2008 22:46, Ben Olive wrote:
No, I haven't. What should I look for there? I didn't change anything
between
debian and ubuntu but ubuntu saw it as SCSI automatically.
Look for anything that may be related... Such as making IDE look like SATA
(although I've only seen the opposite).
--Ben Olive
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 25 August 2008 14:09, Ben Olive wrote:
I am trying to install debian on a computer with one IDE drive
attached. Partman on the debian installer does not see a partition
table on the drive though there is one and if I write a new one it
still doesn't see it. When I load the ubuntu installer, it sees the
disk as a SCSI (sda) instead of IDE (hda). Even though this disk is
actually IDE, it somehow only works when treated as SCSI. How can I
force debian to treat the device as a scsi device?
Have you looked into the options at the BIOS setup?
--Ben Olive
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It could be that the Ubuntu Kernel is using the new PATA drivers which
make all drives appear as sd?. These are available in the Debian kernel
source (2.6.25 at least) also, but as they are experimental they are not
compiled in. If you do an lsmod on the two systems you should see that
the debian kernel has generic 'ide' modules, and probably a module for
your specific chipset, and the ubuntu kernel has 'pata' modules for your
chipset.
If this is the case you could roll your own kernel, very easy with
make-kpkg, and disable the ide modules and build the pata modules you
need into the kernel.
HTH
Wackojacko
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