Re: Install attempt - 2 problems

[Don Hayward <don@pomobuli.net>]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Hendrik Tews wrote:
>
> I used an sarge d-i cd (thats 32bit debian) with an Tyan Thunder
> K8S Pro board, which also contains the Sil3114. I had the same
> problem: the sata disk does not show up in the partition menu.
> For me the following worked:
>
> When the partition menu shows up switch to the second console
> Ctrl-Alt-F2. There doe modprobe sata_sil. Then switch back to
> console one. Quit the partition menu and go back to the main
> menu. Do autodetect hardware again. Afterwards the sata disk was
> available for partitioning.

Hendrik, et al.

I tried again last evening with the earlier (sil-sata) d-i, It worked
for me when I went to the alt-f2 console at the first screen
(language) and did modprobe sata-sil, then went back and continued the
install.

Thanks for the responses.

Don
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