[64studio-devel] 1.3 and 1.2 install's gone bad.

[pete]

Am Dienstag 22 Mai 2007 19:47 schrieb Jimmy Johnson:
> Jimmy wrote:
> > 1.3 install, I verified the md5sum and verified the cd burn, the install
> > went ok, after the reboot all I could get was the busybox, no access to
> > my HDD.
> >
> > 1.2 install, I verified the md5sum and verified the cd burn, the install
> > went ok, reboot ok. Installed Etch KDE, after the reboot all I could get
> > was the busybox, no access to my HDD.
> >
> > Intel duel core CPU and Intel 945 MOBO.
>
> Hello Daniel and Free, both of these installs were i386-32 bit, am I the
> only one with these problems?
> I have the same problem with the Ubuntu distro(any).
>
> I do not have the problem with Mepis, Skolelinux or Debian Etch, Lenny
> or Sid, I have done many new and clean installs and I know this is not a
> hardware problem.
>
> Has this problem been addressed in 1.4?
>
> Just one more thing :-) is there any place I can still get a copy of 1.1
> i386? So far it is the only version that has worked for me.
>
> Thanks for your hard work.

Hi,
this seems me to be the same problem I reported last week with 
subject: "problems installing 64studio 1.3 - addressing hda devices as sda". 
But nobody answerd.

I write it again:

After Installation I found it wasn't possible to boot in the new system 
without changing the grub entry from hda to sda. The installer found 
ide-disks and addressed them correctly as hda1, hda... But the 64studio 
kernel found them later as sda1, sda...

It seems to be related with the changing to ata_piix driver - I don't no much 
about it, just that debian is changing their way to address ide-devices. But 
now the funny thing. It's _not_ reproducable. Aber installing the third time 
the devices where addressed as ide-devices - and booting after installing 
was'n a problem but at the fourth time again booting failed again until 
changing grub from root=/dev/hda2 to root=/dev/sda2 and fstab.

Anybody who can explain this behavior? On etch still ide-devices are addressed 
as hda.

We are using the i386-kernel on pentium 4.

ciao
pete