> Output of lspci and lspci -n: not available
> Installer doesn't detect hard drives. Other distros detect hard drives, > so no physical fault. > > Poking around the 'net suggests that the error is because the 2.6.8 > kernel doesn't have the required drivers for the RAID controller card > used in the Dell PE 2850 (Perc 4e/Di, which is some LSI card, which > requires the megaraid_mbox, megaraid_mm drivers). Could you provide us with the output of "(lspci ; lspci -n)|sort" from another distribution? OF course, if neither 2.6.8 nor 2.4.27 have the required drivers, then we're stucked as kernels are now frozen for D-I.