RE: installation problems with SATA drives
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:steffl@bigfoot.com]
> 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
>
>
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