This is a known issue of the Debian Sarge Installer: See the "Errata" section in http://www.us.debian.org/releases/sarge/debian-installer/ and try out the mentioned workaround.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Steffl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 8:09 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: installation problems with SATA drives > > SALAH NOURI wrote: > > Hi, > > did anybody figure out how to install debian on a machine with 2 or > > more SATA drives? > > i get the error "no partitionable media" when booting the installer > > with the default parameters. > > and booting with expert26 gives me "no common cd-rom drive > was detected". > > - make sure you have recent install, I think you need at > least kernel > 2.6.9 (or maybe higher, the early 2.6.x kernels didn't work) > > - you can choose SATA disks to appear as regular IDE disks > (/dev/hd*) or SCSI disks (in kernel config: > CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y, plus module for your chipset (lspci > should tell you what you have) and SCSI disk support) > > then check your boot messages, the disks should be recognized... > > erik > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >