Slack 11 CD boots from SATA, but then not found
Hi,
I'm testing out a new motherboard that I'm going to install in my server. The problem is, that it only has one IDE channel, and I need that for 2 hard drives. To overcome this, I put a IDE/SATA converter on the CD drive and plugged it in to the SATA controller. I can now boot, the sata.i kernel, from the drive. But once Slack is running, I can't find the drive to install from. If I put in another hard drive, with Slack already installed, and boot it, it finds the CD, as /dev/sr0. When I boot from the CD, I get the following messages (hopefully without transcription errors): Code:
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 So, how come the device was found during boot, but doesn't show up anywhere after that. Update: I checked /proc/interrupts and that shows irq 11 being serviced by libata. More updates: On the "working" system, the messages pumped out are very slightly different. Code:
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 |
Unless you really want to knock yourself out trying to solve this, don't bother.
I tried with the Slack 12 CD and that finds the CD drive fine. I guess the SATA support in the Slack 11, 2.4 kernel, isn't fully "up to snuff". Cheers. |
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