cant't install slack10.2 to sata disk
 

i tried installing slakware 10. 2 to one of my friends box.

It is AMD64 bit athlon, ASUS K8S-MX Board, with sata drive as hdd.(only one disk)

i tried sata.i kernel first and it showed "kerenl panic ".
then i tried test26.s kernel and gone well till, i got the promt
root@..#
i cant detect the device (like we do in ide disks /dev/hda)for partition
because of this i cant partition the disk

i tried root@..# fdisk -l (showed nothing)

HOw to know the device? :rolleyes:
i tried dmesg tll then i cant find teh hard disk device

help me get rid of this problem??

Try navigate in /proc/scsi or similar to get infos

go to slackware website and read what each sata.* kernel is for

if you have one of those sata controllers

if not the test26.s kernel should work

your devices will be /dev/sda

worst case

use the bare.i kernel and your devices will show up as /dev/hda (and be very slow)

then just build your own kernel

soule

what SATA controller are you using. If you are using a VIA chipset dont use the libata SATA driver. Use the SCSI level SATA driver. And oh yes,kernel compiles are very easy.
Most people overestimate how hard they are. (the first compile is the hardest)

trying..need to install slack
 

it is not working now. :(
these are the messages i receive

#/proc/scsi/scsi
Permission denied

#/proc/devises
/proc/devises:Permission denied

ls /dev/sd*
No such file or directory

in dmesg there was one line
scsi:<fdomain> Detection failed (no card)

it is not compiling kernel, this is an instalation issue,
cant slack detect hard disk :( ??????

Sis 7001 chipset i think
not know!!

Edit:
when i use all other kernels instead of test26.s it will show messg
"kernel panic, trying to kill init " and some numbers tehn it stops

normal behaviour, if you type the filename directly, the shell
believe it is an executable and try to run it, as the execute bit
is not set on the file --> Permission denied, even if you are root

Use the cat command to display files :
(for example)

no no where is my hard disk
 

#cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
#
no other information, any help to determine the disk

Maybe you could try the lspci command to determine your sata chipset ?

using dmesg you can see if it found your HDD's or by doing 'cat /proc/partitions' and you should see something.

what kernel are you using to install with?

not the one you choose at the end, but the beggining of the install.

soule

nope can't i install slack, will i miss it
 

keefaz
#lspci
lspci:No such file or directory

earlier i tried that but frogot to mention that.

Namaseit
#cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

dmesg i tried i cant even detect the thing there only i can find out is hdd assigned to dvd drive

soulestream test26.s
all other kernels shows error
i cant even partion or see the partions then whow can i run setup.
(haven't even run setup ):(
so i am stuck with first step in the #

will i able to install slack to this machine ? :confused:

is slack not detecting hard disk
is it some problem with motherboard?
is it a slack problem, Does teh kernel didnt detect hard disk ?
help me out of this problem, tell me how to know the hard disk device

Mmmhh, I don't really know but I have googled a little and maybe found
a suggestion here : http://www.linuxaa.com/ftopic12841.html

The idea is to put SATA disk in JBOD mode, not BIOS RAID in your BIOS

how to toggle b/w these modes
 

how will i do this?(i tried bios options, none was there relating this)
is it the way we are putting the jumper?

Do you see nothing related to SATA in your BIOS ?

got one raid setup
 

In bios there is only one line for sata

On Board PCI S-ATA Controller [Enabled]

only two options, enable and disable.

but after bios setup igot into "Raid setup" by pressing cntrl+s(for this board)
Current created raid and it displays the disk
there it shows the "mode as UDMA" and "raid type as Single"
there is an option [R] for set up andwe cant change tht

any idea :(