Help~~~How to create a floppy driverdisk for Mandriva 2007??
I have a VIA VT8237A MB and SATA HDD. And I want to install Mandriva 2007 on my SATA HDD.
But Mandriva 2007 can't recognize the SATA controller of VT8237A. So I want to create a driverdisk for Mandriva 2007 to load sata_via driver when CD-ROM booting. Does anyone know how to create a driverdisk for Mandriva 2007 just like Fedora Linux?? Thanks. Any help is appreciate. |
Does this help?
http://mdv.vmlinuz.ca/Development/Ho...in_your_driver Have you tried the legacy mode of the HD (look in BIOS) Otherwise you can - wait for 2007.1 that will support the chipset - install another distro, recompile a kernel 2.6.18 - buy a pata HD - possibly do a net install of cooker (do not know, maybe...) There are 4 threads on http://forum.club.mandriva.com |
Hi Emmanuel_uk:
Thanks for your reply. I will give a try and update test status. Thanks. Update again: There is a detail step for creating driverdisk for Mandriva 2007.0 in viaarena forum. http://forums.viaarena.com/messagevi...&enterthread=y Update: I tried the "If boot floppies don't contain your driver" method and create a flooy boot disk with cd installation image "cdrom.img". When system boot, it appears "Can't find CD-ROM" message. So I tried failed with this method. But I found another method. I can install Mandriva 2007.0 on SATA HDD and boot from it. Following is my steps: 1. install Mandriva 2007.0 to IDE HDD 2. patch the sata_via.c with VT8237A id "0591" 3. build sata_via.ko with cpu type i586 and i686 and copy the two modules to floopy 4. System restart and boot from installation CD/DVD 5. Select "Installation" item and wait for X Screen appear 6. Then press "Ctrl+Alt+F2" to change to command line 7. Mount floppy and load "libata", "scsi_mod" and "sata_via i586" module. If driver load successfully, SATA HDD should be found under "Ctrl+Alt+F4" Screen 8. press "Ctrl+Alt+F7" to back to X install Screen 9. Just install OS as normal step, until appear "reboot" Screen 10. Then press "Ctrl+Alt+F2" again and mount the installation partition 11. copy the sata_via i686 module to system partion 12. Rebuild the initrd img 13. Boot with the new initrd img |
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