[debian-non-standard] Problems installing debian on FSG-3 (boots from flash, but cannot see internal disk)

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

juan--nsd82 at lavera.dnsalias.net schrieb:
> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>> But I think the disk was there - look what initramfs built in the kernel
>> We compare all partitions that are available for kernel:
>>
>> cat /proc/partitions
>>
>> and if one of them is sdb:
>>
>> ......
>> This means, the kernel saw sda and sdb, so there were two devices 
>> connected.
>>
> Maybe, but today I did the 2nd attempt. Right after booting from 
> pendrive. I connected and executed the commands you'll see at the end of 
> this message (with results).
> 
> proc/partitions has no trace of sdb
> 
> mount command shows sdb2. But /proc/mounts shows sda2

It just means the kernel didn't detect HDD, period.
If USB-stick is the only device, we will boot from it, because it's 
/dev/sda.


>> You should have asked here first. ;)
> Yeah! I should 8-)
>> It should work out of the box. If not, there is something wrong, but 
>> without a dmesg, it's hard to tell anything meaningful.
>>
> A full dmesg is at the end. Do you see anything strange?
> 
> I miss something between
> scsi2 : sata_via
>                 and
> NFTL driver: nftlcore.c $Revision: 1.98 $, nftlmount.c $Revision: 1.41 $

Certainly. You should have a HDD drive ther. Something like:

scsi2 : sata_via
ata3.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 160836480 sectors: LBA48
ata3.00: ata3: dev 0 multi count 0
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      HDS728080PLAT20  PF2O PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
SCSI device sda: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
support DPO or FUA
SCSI device sda: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
support DPO or FUA
   sda: sda1 sda2
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda


> My next step will be repeating everything with a different internal HD 
> and share my results

And? Did you try changing it?


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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