-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, > .. >> Then I succeeded with the following: >> - set SATA mode in BIOS to "combined" >> - dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=200 >> - reboot >> - installation works as normal > > We do this on the GX620, > but just setting SATA mode to "combined" and leave it here :-) > Works just fine. Yes of course, but I wondered why this might be - something must be left on the disk or in the bios, after success in combined mode I can switch back to normal mode, partition the drive as a whole, and the same thing works which didn't before. > >> I think the problem has to do with the recognition of the geometry >> during the linux boot process - it seems to relate to the way the disk >> has been partitioned _before_ we boot the first time with unattended >> linuxboot. > > See this posting by Pat on bug-parted mail-list (bottom of posting) > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-07/msg00034.html > > Seems like he use a workaround for unattended to set C/H/S: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-07/msg00012.html Well, I've read these, but I wonder where from should unattended know which settings to set in /proc/ide/hda/settings - if.
> >> Could you please provide a download location for the linuxboot.iso and >> changes to linuxaux to quickly try this out? Thanx a lot! > > Im also interested in this :-) Thanks to Florian I finally succeeded in installing P4P800+SATA-drive with unattended. IMHO the solution mainly came from using parted version 1.6.22. We'll try to provide an iso and docs asap. Falko -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRI1dCokcY98goEs/AQJZowf/SqjbpFWsABJ9wGKLfERoWq9P2Hmm1yec i0Mvyvwnd+Chn7YVngJLzoEEBez4+YSq85tkirOBUdzcRj12ZlV0opB7I187Fae9 LChu7fwS62uevkeawkAQFNuxQEFXgWB2KLTUeRIF8sGXqo/BeQGVcIR3n09j7N71 GSKst93JnHoXahNgAt89Ok7QmANaCQ8soThymCbDOp3s4Hc1YFS+bdzXjkUXqjus FIiOvnQgHrXI9sQF/gaNeQS6qErZVMCK5TIhomJ+Qk73aMO1gCt2boVd05P63rX7 jQJ97biNf9CNV2n3VZrg7vUYLOdx+G+xfXrJDrvRYKmnuKn1SaPy0w== =PPb+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
