One more thing I tried last night. I created the bf24 boot floppies from the debian 3.0r1 CD but got a kernel panic. I also downloaded the unstable boot floppies from one of the debian primary sites and again got a kernel panic. Why would the floppy kernel fail to boot?
----- Message Forwarded on Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:25:36 -0400 ----- >Hi all, something very interesting. I booted debian on my old western digital >as primary master (on board ide) and my cd-rom as secondary master and cd-rw >as secondary slave. My siig ultra ata is installed and my seagate is >connected to it's primary and the drive is jumped as master. > >The western digital has debian testing with kernel-image-2.4.24-1-k6. > >Ok, Linux boots up perfect. It sees the seagate and I am able >to csfdisk and mkfs. as root I mounted /dev/hde and I can use the drive. >The drive works. > >However, nothing has allowed me to boot the install CD and install a fresh >debian onto the new seagate. The install insists there are no hard disks. > >I don't know what to do. I want the new seagate to be my boot drive. >is there another option? > >Jim > >>Hi all, I'm trying to install woody (3.0r1) from CD's on a PC with an >>AMD K6 II 500mhz and a brand new Seagate 80GB Barracuda Ultra ata/100 and a >>brand new SIIG ultra ata/133 pci controller. in addition to the new Seagate, >>the pc has an IO Magic CD-ROM and an LG CD-RW. Prior to buying the new Seagate and the >new >>SIIG controller the pc ran fine with a 2GB Western Digital connected to the >>on board IDE. >> >>First I tested the the SIIG controller by connecting the old western digital to >>it's primary channel and connected the cd-rom and cd-re to it's secondary channel. >>I disabled the onboard ide in the BIOS. I booted. The SIIG sucessfully detected >>all drives and linux booted. Every worked. >> >>Then I took out the western digital and installed the new Seagate to the SIIG >>primary channel. I was hoping the SIIG was smart enough to boot from cd but >>it didn't. The SIGG detected all drives but wouldn't boot the cd. >> >>Now here's where I start my trial and error. I'm not sure what is the best >>configuration to use at this point. I removed the cd-rom and cd-rw from the >> SIIG and attached them back to the secondary onboard ide and re-enabled it in >>the BIOS. SIIG detected my new Seagate, the BIOS detected both CD drives and the >>Debian woody cd booted but the debian installation didn't see the new >>Seagate. >> >>Maybe the SIIG isn't even compatible with linux? >>Is there a boot floppy out there that I can use to get the installation going? >>How can I get the debian installation to see the Seagate? >> >>Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]