Hi,

Mobo: MSI K8NGM2-FID
HDD1: ST3300620A (IDE) (Running XP Pro)
HDD2: ST3320620AS (SATA) (empty)

I have the slack 11 ISO on 3 cds. I'm able to boot from the CD no problem. When prompted to select a kernel name, I type sata.i (I've also just pressed <enter> without typing anything since sata.i is the default..the results are the same) and press enter. When I run cfdisk, I don't see the SATA drive. I've also run fdisk -l and I only see info about the IDE drive.

I've also tried using huge26.s as the kernel name, same result. I know the SATA is ok because I can see it in the BIOS, windoze also recognizes it, and I've tried using some filesystem tools from a Universal boot CD and they recognize the drive.

Is there any way to capture the info on the screen, or pause it before I get to the prompt for the US keyboard? I see some info about the SATA drive, but it scrolls so quickly that I can't make it out.

Also, any ideas how I can get slack 11 to recognize the drive?

Thanks,
Pimy

p.s. I would post the URLs to the mobo and hdds, but it's my first post, and the site is blocking that feature for me.

pimy,

Did you partition the drive with cfdisk after booting the huge26.s kernel? Two partitions are enough one for / and one for swap.

My Dell has a SATA drive but the sata.i kernel doesn't work for me whereas the huge26.s does. I'd stick with that kernel.

Dennisk

Thanks for the response. I'm unable to create partitions for a drive that is not being detected.

Hi pimy.

You can force cfdisk or fdisk to detect it.
Mario

Hi,

What is the output of;
The 'dmesg' output is from the kernel ring buffer. See 'man dmesg'.

The output from these commands should indicate what hardware you are seeing at boot time. This information will allow a means to identify what to do next.

EDIT: BTW, disable the raid in BIOS.

>> Hi pimy.
>> You can force cfdisk or fdisk to detect it.
>> cfdisk /dev/sda

That worked. Thank you.

>> Hi,
>> What is the output of;
>> dmesg |grep hd #get hd info at boot
>> lspci -vv #get hardware information from hardware

Thanks for sharing this info. Even though forcing the detection of the drive worked, I'll give this a shot for the sake of learning.

>> dmesg |grep hd #get hd info at boot

lists info about my PATA drive, and dvd burner. Also lists the following info in regards to my SATA drive:

SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)

>> lspci -vv #get hardware information from hardware

No such file or directory. I guess I would need to run Gnoppix, or something similar.

>> also tried hwinfo --pci

No such file or directory.

>> cat /proc/pci

Returned a bunch of info.

>> figured I'd try cat /proc/scsi/scsi | more since boot info listed it as scsi device

Attached devices:
Host: scsi 0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST 3320620AS Rev: 3.AA
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05

Excuse my naivety, are SATA drives normally identified as SCSI devices in slack?