Hmmm funny, I just realized this is the post I put in the VIA Technology forum for which I didn't get an answer.darkstar61 wrote:dunno if it could be usefull
http://www.google.com/search?q=VIA+cont ... 5287+linux
Sata drives not recognized.
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I made a frugal installation on an Acer notebook today.
Running from CD, Puppy 301 recognized the sata drives.
I then used the universal installer to copy the files to harddisk, and ran grubinstall.
The universal installer said, I should add to grub "pmedia=satahd"
At reboot I got a message, that pup_301.sfs could not be found.
The comand partprobe_initrd showed up only the CD-drive hda.
After some tests I found out, that in Grubs menu.lst I had to run the kernel with the option
pmedia=idehd pdev1=sda6
So pmedia=idehd lets Puppy find the drive.
But sda6 forces it to find the file, as ide-drives usually are called "hd*" , not "sd*".
Mark
Running from CD, Puppy 301 recognized the sata drives.
I then used the universal installer to copy the files to harddisk, and ran grubinstall.
The universal installer said, I should add to grub "pmedia=satahd"
At reboot I got a message, that pup_301.sfs could not be found.
The comand partprobe_initrd showed up only the CD-drive hda.
After some tests I found out, that in Grubs menu.lst I had to run the kernel with the option
pmedia=idehd pdev1=sda6
So pmedia=idehd lets Puppy find the drive.
But sda6 forces it to find the file, as ide-drives usually are called "hd*" , not "sd*".
Mark
Sata drives not recognized
I have a Lenovo with a bios date of April 2014. I wiped win8.1 from it and tried to install Slacko 5.7, but legacygrub2013 doesn't install anything properly on anything I've used it on, including my old IBM ThinkCentre with IDE drives.
I turned to Puppy 5.2.8, which had the traditional grub installer and worked on the IBM, but won't work on this newer PC with it's recent SATA drives. I finally got a decent install of Slackware with LILO, and thought I'd finally re-written the mbr (I did). Turns out that I still couldn't get Slacko or Debian to install on this drive, despite having multiple partitions to install to.
I'm going to try the "pmedia=satahd" and a couple other options mentioned to see what happens. If nothing else, I'll just have to use a thumb drive and boot from that on this machine. Bummer, as I could live without Slackware even though it''s been my tried-and-true since the mid-90's, along with BSD, but I just gotta have my Puppy, and Debian wouldn't hurt, either!
I originally migrated to Puppy 2.15CE Final so I could have something that "just works" to show off to other newbies and introduce them to Linux. And it does just that on every netbook I've tried it on, as well as every desktop machine I used with IDE drives. I'm gonna' miss those....
I turned to Puppy 5.2.8, which had the traditional grub installer and worked on the IBM, but won't work on this newer PC with it's recent SATA drives. I finally got a decent install of Slackware with LILO, and thought I'd finally re-written the mbr (I did). Turns out that I still couldn't get Slacko or Debian to install on this drive, despite having multiple partitions to install to.
I'm going to try the "pmedia=satahd" and a couple other options mentioned to see what happens. If nothing else, I'll just have to use a thumb drive and boot from that on this machine. Bummer, as I could live without Slackware even though it''s been my tried-and-true since the mid-90's, along with BSD, but I just gotta have my Puppy, and Debian wouldn't hurt, either!
I originally migrated to Puppy 2.15CE Final so I could have something that "just works" to show off to other newbies and introduce them to Linux. And it does just that on every netbook I've tried it on, as well as every desktop machine I used with IDE drives. I'm gonna' miss those....