On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:33:29PM -0500, Walter Landry wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a new laptop, an IBM Thinkpad T43. So, of course, I > immediately started putting Debian on it with RC2. The first problem > I ran into is that the integrated ethernet card (Broadcom NetXtreme) > was not recognized. So I selected the tg3 driver, and it worked fine. > Using the 2.4 kernel, I was able to install a new system. > > However, for various reasons I won't go into, I wanted to use the 2.6 > kernel. Unfortunately, the netinst iso can not detect my hard drive. > I get a "No partionable media" error. I get a similar problem if I > build a custom 2.6 kernel and use it on my 2.4 install. > > I have tried with "noapic nolapic" and "noapic nolapic acpi=off", but > I still get the same error. The hard drive is a Fujitsu MHT2060AH. Find out what disc controller your laptop has. I don't known if recent versions of d-i include 'lspci' [1] Where you have a working network connection "wget it" and run: (lspci ; lspci -n ) | sort and send us the output. Also inform your hardware vendor that you want to run GNU/Linux on your laptop. > Are there any other kernel options that might work? I would have > tried a daily build, but the link seems down. And which link should be restored? Cheers Geert Stappers [1] Is "Use a live CD like Knoppix for `lspci`" still the best advice?
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