Well, I was finally successful. Here my installation notes:
System: DFI LanpartyUT nforce3 250gb AMD Athlon64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] IDE NEC 3500 DVD Burner 200GB SATA HDD For the Mainboard Compatibility list: ata: ? (probably nforce - worked right away) ata raid: I dont use it sata: sata_nv scso: - network: forcedeth (nv_net - the nvidia binary driver should also work, didnt test it though) sound: intel8x0 Installation notes: 1. I used the latest pure64 netinst iso. 2. First of all, my USB Keyboard didn't work during the installation, although my BIOS should make it usable - I could type on the boot prompt, but not in the installer. 3. The installer recognized my Firewire port as network device, but not the onchip NIC. I had to switch to a console and manually load the forcedeth driver. then I used ifconfig to start the eth1 device (not sure if the installer could have done that too..) 4. I used XFS for my root partition. 5. First I had problems with GRUB, wich seems to have trouble on XFS partitions, so I created a 20MB /boot partition with ext2 (during the second installation - grub ruined the first one) 6. After the computer was rebooted to finish the installation, I kept reading messages about sata drives being added and removed again (I forgot the actual wording of the message) - they messed up my whole screen. I found some posts about that problem in the internet and found the solution: After disabling all unused SATA channels/controllers in my BIOS, the error message was gone. The rest went pretty straight forward, this email is sent from my new system! :-) regards and thanks for the help! Jonas PS: Please CC me in any replies, I'm not on the list (yet?). Am Donnerstag 11 November 2004 06:50 schrieb Bob Proulx: > Jonas Diemer wrote: > > PS: Please CC me in your replies, I am not subscribed to the list. > > > > I get a kernelpanic, saying that the root filesys couldn't be mounted. I > > guess this is because the sata driver (I believe it is sata_nv) is > > compiled as a module. Am I correct? > > Almost certainly. > > > What would you suggest - how should I get my system installed? > > Boot from the DFS iso. > > http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs > > Among other good stuff this bootable cd image provides a grub boot. > At the grub boot prompt you can provide both the kernel and the > initrd. The process should go something like this for your /dev/sda3 > boot, assuming I transposed things properly for that. > > root (hd0,2) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-amd64-k8 root=/dev/sda3 ro > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-3-amd64-k8 > boot > > Even if that does not work the bootable cd image is useful to further > debugging efforts. If nothing else you can borrow the kernel and > initrd from that disk and install them to your drive. > > Bob