Re: SATA drive problems in LENNY...

2008-07-15 Thread Kai Martens
Thanks, Ron! The solution was noapic as a kernel parameter though. Mark Allums' shot in the dark held the key. Then I tried to transfer my system from the old 8.6G ide disk to the new 500G sata disk, following instructions you seem to have gotten on another occasion: dd and resize2fs. dd worke

Re: SATA drive problems in LENNY...

2008-07-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/15/08 16:15, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] > > > Silicon Image controllers require a driver, so the obvious question is, > are the drivers in the kernel or a module? [Thinking aloud:] It seems > to be there, from the above, but SATA requires SCSI

Re: SATA drive problems in LENNY...

2008-07-15 Thread Mark Allums
Sam Leon wrote: Kai Martens wrote: Hi there, While upgrading to service pack 3 windoze died - so I finally got my wife to work on my debian machine. Now I need to install debian on her amd64 compaq, and unlike 15 month ago this time I cannot give up. The SATA drives are simply not recognized

Re: SATA drive problems in LENNY...

2008-07-15 Thread Sam Leon
Kai Martens wrote: Hi there, While upgrading to service pack 3 windoze died - so I finally got my wife to work on my debian machine. Now I need to install debian on her amd64 compaq, and unlike 15 month ago this time I cannot give up. The SATA drives are simply not recognized during installat

Re: SATA drive problems in LENNY...

2008-07-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/15/08 00:53, Kai Martens wrote: > Hi there, > > While upgrading to service pack 3 windoze died - so I finally got my wife > to work on my debian machine. Now I need to install debian on her amd64 > compaq, and unlike 15 month ago this time I c