On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:47:09PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: > Debian-installer-version: 4-23-04 > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta3/sarge-i386-netinst.iso > uname -a: Linux qo10 2.4.25-1-386 #1 Tue Feb 24 08:11:13 EST 2004 i686 unknown > Date: 4-23-04 > Method: Boot from CD > > Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)> > Processor: Dual AMD Opteron > Memory: 8GB > Root Device: SATA Name of device? ?? Sil 3114 SATA controller chip > Root Size/partition table: could not see SATA disk to partition it > Output of lspci: can't run lspci > > Somewhat detects existence of SATA disk, claims it needs ide-scsi > module which doesn't exist, then goes to partion page with a blank > default menu entry, hitting enter just returns to same page.
> Since SATA systems have become mainstream, support for this is > really needed (the MS-Windows folks here just laughed and said > that they could install Windows on the same system without problems). type 'linux26' at the boot prompt (of a recent daily snapshot, which seems to be the case here) to boot into Linux-2.6 and get SATA support. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
