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blubaustin
April 18th, 2009, 08:51 PM
I have a Debian Testing net-install disk trying to install on a:
AMD 450mhz AMD k6-II
256MB ram
NVIDIA 4200 AGP
USB cable modem
5GB IDE HD Fireball
Yamaha 16x10x40 burner IDE

and it asks for a Hard Disk driver....any ideas?

lemming465
April 19th, 2009, 11:02 PM
See if you can adjust BIOS settings for the IDE controller; the kernel you are loading isn't recognizing the disk controller chipset. Do you know what the motherboard model is, and in particular what the "southbridge" chip is?

blubaustin
April 19th, 2009, 11:29 PM
Not really any setting on the Bios except for a addon IDE card, or to set it as primary, secondary, or both.

Southbridge: ALi M1542 A1

blubaustin
April 21st, 2009, 10:26 PM
Also has same error on my JP vectra VL400 MT, PIII 1.0ghz, 256mb RAM, 5GB hd, ATI RAGE 128 16mb PRO AGP 4x. Which is kinda wierd...

cariboo
April 21st, 2009, 11:09 PM
I have never seen a debian based installation ask for a hard drive driver, unless the hard drive was connected to addon card or if using Dynamic Drive Overlays to over come BIOS limitations on hard drive size.

Jim

lemming465
April 22nd, 2009, 11:54 PM
If you are getting the same error from two different systems, how sure are you that the CD-R burned successfully? Bad burns is probably the single most common source of problems, which is why so many CD's (Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat Enterprise, ...) have self-test boot modes. I can't remember, does debian have a self-test mode? If so, does your CD pass?