Re: RESOLVED: Problems Installing FC1 to SATA Hard Disk

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Hi Mike,

nice stuff, please consider posting this on FedoraNEWS.org, they accept
articles from non-staff, IMHO this would be a nice reference for other
users. Contact Thomas Chung (email address on the site).

Best,

Andre

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 18:05:09 +0100 (BST)
"Mike Insch (as00000042)" <as00000042@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just a quick note to the list to say that the problems I was having
> installing FC1 to a SATA HDD are resolved - I now have a full install
> of FC1 with all updates running on the box.  Many thanks to everyone
> who sent advice and info :)
> 
> For anyone who needs to do something similar, here are the steps I
> took: 1. Download the VIA drivers for the SATA Chipset from:
>    http://downloads.viaarena.com/drivers/RAID/VIA_RAID_Linux_V100.zip
> 2. On a donor machine, which is running the stock 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
> kernel, and which has as a minimum the kernel-sources and gcc32
> packages installed as well, uncompress the .zip file into a temporary
> location(say, /root/VIA)
> 3. Change into the 'drivers' directory, and edit the file 'Makefile',
> change
>    KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux
>    to
>    KERNELDIR=/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/build
> 4. Add a new line to the same file:
>    CC=gcc32
> 5. save the file, and execute:
>    ./dd.sh
> 6. This should create a directory called 'driverdisk', and inside
> there, a file called 'viamraid.img'.  This is the driver disk image
> file.  Change into the driverdisk directory, and do:
>    dd if=./viamraid.img of=/dev/fd0
> 7. On the 'new' box, start the installation as normal (just hit enter
> at the boot: prompt), and when you are told that no hard disks were
> found, select "yes" to load new drivers.
> 8. Select "Add Driver", then press F2, insert the driver disk created
> on the donor machine
> 9. select fd0, then hit OK.  The disk will be read, and the driver
> will be added to the list
> 10. Select "Raid Controller, VIA Technologies" from the list
> 11. This will enable the RAID/SATA controller, select Done, and
> continue with the installation as normal.
> 12. When the installation is complete, reboot, and follow through the
> First Boot process.  When you see a desktop, press CTRL+ALT+F1 to
> switch to a Console.
> 13. Login as root, and do:
>     telinit 3
> 14. Login as root again, and connect to the internet (unless you're
> connected already by LAN/DSL)
> 15. Edit /etc/modules.conf, change:
>     alias scsi_hostcontroller viamraid
>     to
>     alias scsi_hostcontroller sata_via
> 16. now do:
>     yum -y update
> 17. When the updates are complete, reboot into kernel
> 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl 18. During startup, kudzu will detect the "new" VIA
> SATA controller, select configure, boot will continue as normal.
> 
> That's "all" there is to it :)
> 
> In the murky past Chadley Wilson did say:
> > Hi Mike I did mail to the list the links for the drivers but what is
> > really scary is the size of the driver, I have no idea how to setup
> > a floppy disc to provide the driver of this size, but maybe you
> > could setup an ftp server somewhere with the driver on it, I have
> > heard of this but never tried it.
> > I am afraid it would be a bit out of my experience.
> >
> > good luck
> >
> > On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 20:42, Mike Insch (as00000042) wrote:
> >> In the murky past Chadley Wilson did say:
> >> > On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 20:19, Mike Insch (as00000042) wrote:
> >> >> Hi All,
> >> <SNIP>
> >> > Does your bios detect the drive?
> >>
> >> Yes, the BIOS detects the drive fine, I have it connected to SATA1
> >> (Serial_Ch0).
> >>
> >> > If it doesn't the read the manual because we had similar issues
> >with> > this board and windoseXplease here on the proline production
> >line.> > We are the agents for Msi SA so if you could give me more
> >info on your> > bios setup I could possible help.
> >> > I will in the mean time send my contacts at msi mail requesting
> >the> > linux drivers for your chipset. You could possible also get
> >them from> > viarena.com
> >>
> >> I've looked on MSI's website, but there seems to only be drivers
> >for> Windows.  I'll have a look on viarena.com though, cheers.
> >>
> >> > I will check for it might take some time though.
> >> >
> >> > Later...
> > --
> > Chadley - Linux Rocks
> > Welcome to my world.
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