SATA & Slackware

bee2643 · 10-20-2003, 11:34 PM

I've got a Seagate 120GB 8MB SATA harddrive and an Asus P4P800 motherboard
tried to install slack and when booting off the CD i hit enter @ boot prompt and it gets me as far as:
hde: attached ide-disk driver
then the cd spins down and does nothing....ideas???

<---newbie?? LIES
pls keep in mind im newbie to the boards

xulsar · 10-21-2003, 01:45 AM

Yeah, I've run into the same problem. I've discovered that I can make it boot by changing the bios to enhanced mode and setting the SATA to act as RAID, however I can't figure out how to make Slack use it still.

JollyRogers · 10-21-2003, 06:49 AM

Search the Slackware forum??? Also check out my post in

http://www.linuxiso.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11151

bee2643 · 10-21-2003, 09:25 AM

still nothing
wont boot

Seppp · 10-21-2003, 10:47 AM

i also got probs with an S-ATA drive on Mandrake, i guess they arent that supported.

JollyRogers · 10-21-2003, 11:04 AM

bee2643. Still nothing describes very little. Tell me exactly what you did and how. I can't help you with "it doesn't work".

I did a search on your MB, and it in fact uses ICH5 SATA controller, which means it is supported by kernel 2.4.22-ac4 and 2.6.0-test7. Did you create a custom boot cd like described in the link I provided? Realize it means you need a working Linux system to do that.... I have no idea for mandrake....

bee2643 · 10-21-2003, 12:56 PM

i need a linux box to make that cd?
hmm
well when i boot off the cd i get the boot> prompt right...i hit enter and the kernel starts to load at then it hangs at that line i have posted in my first post.
when i enable enhanced mode SATA and set it to raid, all that shows up is my cdrom drive (ATA), linux will then boot, but wont let me install or even create partitions because it doesnt see my harddrive (i do believe u need two or more harddrives for a raid configuration anyways)

JollyRogers · 10-21-2003, 06:47 PM

yes you need a running version of linux to make that because you have to compile a kernel.

Does your motherboard BIOS have a legacy mode for the SATA controller, my MSI does. If it does try setting it to legacy mode in your bios, then install slackware, compile a kernel with serial ATA in the kernel and install the kernel. Then try switching your BIOS to back to native (or enhanced) and see if it will boot.

bee2643 · 10-21-2003, 06:48 PM

any ideas that dont require a pre`working linux box?
ie: someone do it for me and msn/ftp style send it

?

bee2643 · 10-21-2003, 06:49 PM

no no legacy option

JollyRogers · 10-21-2003, 08:29 PM

sorry, can't help you there.

bee2643 · 10-21-2003, 09:44 PM

i managed to get passed that actually, now it stops on:
hda: attached disc-drive driver

i believe

bee2643 · 10-21-2003, 09:54 PM

allright... had a spare IDE2SATA converter lying around...fixed that problem, now, lol. it freezes at:

usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4

ideas???

bee2643 · 10-21-2003, 11:33 PM

so i disabled USB, now its unable to read fixed disk drive during cfdisk
fdisk does the same
this sucks horribly

jayakrishnan · 06-30-2006, 01:21 AM

Hmmmm . i tried installing slacky 10.2 in SATA HDD , it installed without any issues . Selected the sata.i