Fw: Debian Sarge AMD64 and SATA

2006-01-19 Thread Alessandro Pluchino
- Original Message - From: Alessandro Pluchino To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:19 PM Subject: Debian Sarge AMD64 and SATA Hi all! The last days I just can't get to install Debian Sarge AMD 64. It keeps saying to me :no partitionable

Re: Fw: Debian Sarge AMD64 and SATA

2006-01-19 Thread Craig M. Houck
Alessandro Pluchino YES. Sarge has problems doing SATA installs. I had to put it on 30 Dell machines. In order to get to work I had to go into the CMOS/BIOS and change the HDD to Combination. Not sure what that means exactly there was very little explanation there. I suspect it makes it act less

Debian Sarge AMD64 and SATA

2006-01-19 Thread Alessandro Pluchino
Hi all! The last days I just can't get to install Debian Sarge AMD 64. It keeps saying to me :no partitionable media.Meaning it doesn't detect my SATA hard disk drive.. My installation is : K8N4-E motherboard with AMD64 CPU 3000 Maxtor SATA hdd 160 gb 512 mb ram Does anyone know something

Re: Debian Sarge AMD64 and SATA

2006-01-19 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Alessandro Pluchino wrote: Hi all! The last days I just can't get to install Debian Sarge AMD 64. It keeps saying to me :no partitionable media.Meaning it doesn't detect my SATA hard disk drive.. did you try to install using len sorensen's sarge installation iso? it has newer kernel (2.6.12

Re: Fw: Debian Sarge AMD64 and SATA

2006-01-19 Thread thierry
Craig M. Houck wrote: Alessandro Pluchino YES. Sarge has problems doing SATA installs. I had to put it on 30 Dell machines. In order to get to work I had to go into the CMOS/BIOS and change the HDD to Combination. Not sure what that means exactly there was very little explanation there. I

Re: Fw: Debian Sarge AMD64 and SATA

2006-01-19 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 10:33 -0500, Craig M. Houck wrote: In order to get to work I had to go into the CMOS/BIOS and change the HDD to Combination. After you did that, what were the SATA drive(s) in /dev? Mine are detected before the SCSI, and are called sda and b. And a mildly OT question

Re: Fw: Debian Sarge AMD64 and SATA

2006-01-19 Thread Craig M. Houck
-- In order to get to work I had to go into the CMOS/BIOS and change the HDD to Combination. After you did that, what were the SATA drive(s) in /dev? The drive was id'd as hda not as a SCSI. I think I saw a scheme where you fool the system into thinking the SATA are SCSI to get them to