Installing Slack 12.1 on SATA

StarBV · 11-18-2008, 04:56 PM

Okey .. i`m confused ..
I had/have Slack 11 and when i installed i booted with sata.i and everything worked like a charm ...

Now i want to install a fresh new copy of Slack 12.1 but there is no sata.i and my SATA hard drive is not recognized by fdisk/cfdisk ...

anybody got any ideas on how to resolv this issue ?

keefaz · 11-18-2008, 05:02 PM

boot from install DVD and try this boot line:

boot: hugesmp hda=noprobe

More infos:
ftp://ftp.slackware.no/pub/linux/sla..._AND_HINTS.TXT

StarBV · 11-18-2008, 11:51 PM

I don`t want to update, I want a fresh install ..
I tryed with noprobe ...

hda is my cd-rom ....

Any other ideas ? :|

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-19-2008, 02:40 AM

Is your CD-ROM drive IDE ? If so then maybe '/dev/sda' is your HDD, try pointing fdisk to it. Also, check in the BIOS and see what mode the SATA is in, it can be in PATA(IDE), SATA, or AHCI. If it still will not see, try putting it in AHCI mode.

StarBV · 11-19-2008, 03:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

Is your CD-ROM drive IDE ? If so then maybe '/dev/sda' is your HDD, try pointing fdisk to it. Also, check in the BIOS and see what mode the SATA is in, it can be in PATA(IDE), SATA, or AHCI. If it still will not see, try putting it in AHCI mode.

Okey .. so /dev/hda was my cdrom .. i knew that
i tryed a long time ago to point to /dev/sda put there was nothing there ..

anywayz ... the AHCI mode did the trick ... worked like a charm .. long live slackware

))

10x for your help. Have a nice day.

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-19-2008, 03:22 AM

Great, glad to help out.