Hi Siju, On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 06:02:06PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to net install sarge amd64 port on an amd64 athlon > computer with 120GB Seagate Baracuda 7200.7 SATA Hard Disk. > > The mother board is > > http://www.directron.com/rs482m4ild.html > > It seems the installer does not detect the hard disk :-( > > Is this hardware supported? any work arounds? I had a similar problem. It isn't the disk itself that isn't recognised, it's the controller. My SATA controller wasn't recognised by the sata_sil kernel module in the stock kernel. I worked around the problem by hacking the kernel modules from an OpenSUSE initrd into a copy of the debian installer initrd, and then booting the OpenSuSE kernel with the hacked initrd by inserting an option into the already-installed OpenSuSE's GRUB menu. It kind of worked. The main problem was that the modules in the base system didn't match the kernel, so the basic installer couldn't detect the hardware properly (apart from the DVD and the hard drive), which has caused other problems along the way, and I still haven't got the system properly configured as a result. :-( I had to copy /lib/modules/xxx from SuSE into Debian by booting SuSE and mounting the Debian root before I could even boot the installed system properly. There must be a better way - such as building a new installer DVD from the old one but with replaced kernel and modules, but I've no how to do that. I'm new to debian, having come from slackware via SuSE (and given up on SuSE because there's so much missing). Also never had bleeding-edge hardware before ;-) Installed from DVDs: 2x Sarge-amd64 plus the "backports" disk. I need x.org 6.9 to support the ATI card. Dave
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