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
