Digby, hanks for your help & apologies for replying direct to you. I clicked on list reply but I didn't check it.
I'll try your suggestion in the morning (UK time) I'm on testing release. Steve On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:25:45 +0100 Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which release are you on? > > My suggestion would be to go through the motions of doing an > install (ie boot from the install CD) and see if it detects > the hard drive. > > If it doesn't, abort to a shell and look at the dmesg output to > see what diagnostics are produced by the hardware detect. > > If it does work, look for differences in configuration settings and > modules that are loaded. It may be that your kernel upgrade did not > get the same hardware detection benefets of having the kernel selected > during initial install, and hence didn't get modules selection and > arguments setup properly. > > Hope that helps, > DigbyT > > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 08:00:55PM +0100, steve downes wrote: > > The problem is:- > > > > It is a hard disc I am installing to not a cd I'm installing from. > > > > It isn't a new install just an apt-get install upgrade to the kernel. > > > > I might be missing something but I've gone through those pages twice now > > without finding anything relevant. > > > > The machine is still running the 2.4 kernel happily so I don't want to do a > > full install in the hope of is solving the problem. (It's my office server) > > I just need to upgrade the kernel to run the new version of Linux terminal > > Server > > > > Steve > > > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:04:40 +0100 > > Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This fixed the problem with not seeing my sata CD for my Etch install: > > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataAtapiHowto > > > > > > Have you tried setting atapi_enabled=1 in your libata module? > > > > > > Regards, > > > DigbyT > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 05:49:45PM +0100, steve downes wrote: > > > > Just "upgraded" to 2.6 kernel using apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686 > > > > > > > > It cannot see the sata disc which it boots from. It gets to > > > > > > > > Begin: Mounting root file system ... ... > > > > Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... > > > > Done > > > > Begin: Waiting for root file system ... ... > > > > > > > > I have read all I can find & no avail & checked my bios for Legacy or > > > > similar - no joy > > > > > > > > Any pointers please? 2.4 installed fine & ran/runs off the Sata without > > > > problem. > > > > > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
