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Posted: July 14 2006,20:16

Maybe try swapping ribbon cable positions, the cable itself, or connect it to the other IDE bus if there is one, might work.

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Posted: July 15 2006,10:06

It seems like you have a SIS hd controller, right? If so boot with "dsl dma" cheat, after that it should read partitions correctly and hd should work without problems, but you can't do a "debian" style install, so do a frugal install and add "dma" cheat to menu.lst, use grub as bootloader.
If you don't like frugal install, then the only option to use dsl is to recompile kernel, or use some other kernel from other linux.

Some time ago i used vector linux's kernel on dsl and it worked guite fine but there was some problems on some programs and i killed it and did a frugal install and it works fine with "dma" cheat.

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Posted: July 15 2006,15:03

what if you do an HD install and add dma to the boot line in menu.lst?

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Posted: July 15 2006,19:13

Quote (brianw @ July 15 2006,11:03)

what if you do an HD install and add dma to the boot line in menu.lst?

No, that does not work, in "debian" style hd install dsl enables dma after it has found the kernel, and it can't find the kernel because dma is not enabled.

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Posted: July 17 2006,14:58

I have a SIS MoBo, with a SIS Bios (5595), i´m not sure if it means that i have a SIS HD Controller... does it? Anyway, even booting with the "dsl dma" or "install dma" (i've tried both), i still get the same problems. When the system is "Scanning for harddisk partition and creating \etc\fstab..." it returns the same errors (modprobe: can't locate module ...).
If i try to do a Frugal Grub installation (or a frugal lilo one, get the same), i get the error:
"sfdisk: ERROR: Sextor 0 does not have and MSDOS signature.
Sorry System has not detected a linux partition.
You may need to just reboot, so the system can re-read the partition table or create your partition(s) with cfisk and then reboot."

I've tried to create the partitions, but the system alwats stops (get stucked) when i choose to WRITE the partitions to disk.

Is there any other trick that you suggest?

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