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gr0mit
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 Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:23 pm Post subject: boot stops when finding HD |
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The boot process stops with the message
hde: attached ide-disk driver
hde is my only HD and its an S-ATA one.
I have an Asus P4P800D M/B and a 2.8P4HT and have got the P4 specific version of Gentoo
Any help.
As a side note Knoppix 3.3 live cd boots OK and finds the HD ok so I know the HD can be recognised and found. |
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Helena
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| Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I've noticed some posts about S-ATA, maybe that's the problem, but I wonder why your HD is hde where it's normally hda. |
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gr0mit
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why hde - never thought of that I automatically thought a,b reserved for floppy, d,e - cd-rw, dvd-rom so the next letter is e.
I will have a better look when I get home but its got me thinking the BIOS setup for the IDE is 'enhanced' which basically lets me have 3 IDE channels (2 normal and 1 SATA with each having a master and slave - 6 drives in total) but the manual only tells me about Windows OS's and enhanced mode only works in 2k and XP (as far as I can remember) maybe I have to reduce the M/B IDE functions back to a basic level. |
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Helena
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 9:09 am Post subject: |
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| gr0mit wrote: | why hde - never thought of that I automatically thought a,b reserved for floppy, d,e - cd-rw, dvd-rom so the next letter is e.
I will have a better look when I get home but its got me thinking the BIOS setup for the IDE is 'enhanced' which basically lets me have 3 IDE channels (2 normal and 1 SATA with each having a master and slave - 6 drives in total) but the manual only tells me about Windows OS's and enhanced mode only works in 2k and XP (as far as I can remember) maybe I have to reduce the M/B IDE functions back to a basic level. |
I suggest you boot from the LiveCD first and note the output ofIf it returns an error you may repeat this withwhere x=a,b,c,... until you get a reply. Then you'll know what your device name is.
BTW Linux always starts with hda. The convention you mention is DOS/Windows. |
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gr0mit
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Have not had a chance to debug what is going on but got a copy of SuSE Live 9.0 on a magazine cover and that does the same thing hda and hdb get assigned to the CD and DVD rom then it jumps to hde for the SATA hard disk |
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Helena
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes sorry I was a little too hasty in my answer. I don't use serial ATA yet, but it figures that hda..d are reserved for the 4 possible IDE devices and that other devices start with hde... I cannot tell you for sure however. |
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gr0mit
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As I said before there a BIOS settings to set the 'mode' of the IDE / SATA channels.
I wanted to get at least one live Linux working to use as a rescue disk and Knoppix works and probably during the holidays I will debug whats going on. |
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