[21785] in Athena Bugs
Re: Can't install Athena Linux on /dev/hde
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Wed Apr 9 15:23:16 2003
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 15:23:14 -0400
Message-Id: <200304091923.PAA17651@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: hugh@MIT.EDU
CC: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <200304072117.RAA18160@no-knife.mit.edu> (message from Hugh
Robinson on Mon, 07 Apr 2003 17:17:02 -0400)
>Dear linux-dev: recently I tried to use the SIPB installer to install
>Athena Linux 9.1 on a friend's machine. The phase 2 install script
>complained "No IDE drive found; a SCSI driver is required to proceed."
Nope, you're using the regular Athena installer. But anyway...
>Looking at an outdated version of the script I found on the Web
>suggests that the problem may be that the script only looks for a
>master device on the first two IDE controllers (hda and hdc) whereas
>this machine's drive was on the first uDMA (third IDE) controller hde.
Yes, this is a bug; I've got a patch for this which should see the light
of day fairly soon.
>Would it be possible to modify the install script to install onto an
>arbitrary IDE drive?
Yes, this should be available shortly. (For values of "shortly" that are
about a week.) In the meantime, if you want a workaround and you're up
to formatting the disk yourself, you can boot with the CD in (to get past
the "find a valid drive somewhere" part of the script), and then select
manual disk partitioning at the "Installation choices:" prompt. From
there, you can use whatever disk you like, although you'll need to create
the partitions yourself.
