Re: [PLUG] granular install

["Brent Saner" <brent.saner@gmail.com>]

to FURTHER complicate matters, gentoo sees one of my SATA as an ide, and my other SATA's as SATA. weird, eh?

but once i figured that out, i was booting no problem. (but in the meantime, i was actually yelling at grub. "WHERE DID YOU INSTALL TO, YOU LITTLE SON OF A GUN!?")

On 10/16/07, Brian Stempin <brian.stempin@gmail.com> wrote:

it has both..but in bios i set it up as an ide drive.

What do you mean when you say that you have your SATA drive set up as an IDE drive?  Are you enabling some sort of emulation from the BIOS?  Sorry if I sound off-base, but I'm unsure as to what this means.

Do i need to prepare the harddrive in any way?

If you intend to install:  no, the installer will walk you though disk setup.
If you intend to run live:  possibly.  Other Live distros (such as knoppix) look for partitions that they can use to temporarily store files in and use as a sort of swap space.  AFAIK, this is not a requirement to run a Live distro, but you might want to check on the Granular Linux website to see if you can find a boot command to explicitly disable this (so that it can be ruled out as an issue).

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i don't know if you mind me email you directly...... but yes i am using
on board nvida geforce7050pv/nforce 630a chipset
maxtor diamondmax21 250 Gb

When I was using Knoppix on my desktop, I had issues due to the fact that I had both EIDE and SATA connectors.  If your optical drive is also SATA, I would suggest disabling the EIDE interface. 

Also, I noticed that boards with a mix of SATA/EIDE are really weird to configure when it comes to boot order.  Some BIOS's let you choose whether to use EIDE or SATA to boot.  Others have options to allow one to be "dominant" over the other by default, ie:  you can choose whether the BIOS will attempt to boot from one interface before trying the other.

On 10/16/07, Matthew Rosewarne < mrosewarne@inoutbox.com> wrote:

Could you try running some other distributions' CDs?  That way it might be
possible to see if it's a bug in granular.

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