On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:08:49PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote: > On Monday 02 January 2006 21:56, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:51:32PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > > > Debian Installers. My BIOS reports > > > > > > IDE Channel 0 Master 250GB SATA1 > > > IDE Channel 1 Slave CD-ROM > > > > That is probably the whole problem. The SATA should NOT be treated as > > an ide device unless you are trying to install something obsolete like > > windows XP which doesn't do SATA natively. > > More importantly you've got a slave device with no master on the same > channel. > That's not supposed to work, and asking for all sorts of strange problems.
Oh right. I forgot to mention that too. Always a very good point. You can't have a slave if there is no master. It just doesn't make sense. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]