HPT366 Linux Drivers

Chadzilla · Post by **Chadzilla** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 1:51 pm

I have a problem with installing Linux...

First, I tried Mandrake 9.2 which did not detect the HPT366 at all, however, Mandrake 7.0 will see it, make a bootdisk for it, and go thru the entire install process.

But when it goes to boot for the first time, it says that it cannot find any mounted drives.

Help?

iSDn · Post by **iSDn** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 9:05 pm

Maybe something is wrong in your fstab file ?

Chadzilla · Post by **Chadzilla** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:26 pm

ok, how is that fixed?

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:22 pm

When the system boots up, you should see the HPT366 controller. The drive(s) associated with the controller will be assigned something like, hda, hdb, hdc, etc. In the fstab file, the mount commands should also show the correct drive assignment. If not, correct the fstab file to reflect the correct drive assignments. This has happened to me after I flashed to the newest BIOS. My drive assignments were hde in fstab. The new HPT366 BIOS changed the drive assignment to hda. After I modified fstab, everything mounted properly.

As a side, I have used MD Linux 8.x to 9.2 and have never had a problem with the HPT366 controller being found by the install. But my boot drive is SCSI, not HPT366.

Chadzilla · Post by **Chadzilla** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:33 pm

(I feel so ignorant...)Ok, I am a network engineer, not too intmate with Linux...

I would need step-by-step instructs...

besides, how can I edit a file if the OS wont boot up?

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:50 pm

system booting and os loading are 2 entirely different universes

99.9% of all systems will boot... some just won't recognize harddrives load os's see ram yadda yadda

but they all boot

Chadzilla · Post by **Chadzilla** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:09 am

ok.... let me ask it this way...

can someone give me step by step instructs on how to fix it?

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:26 am

First step: Do you have a Linux boot disk?

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:46 pm

if you have a linux boot disk.. you can load it and get to a point which you can load pico.. and your good to go