Re: Hard Disks Are Not Detected in a Intel System that Has an ATA Controller Card in the Debian 3.0 Installation 3.0.23 Program
"Daniel P Wheeler" <danielp.wheeler@ntlworld.com> writes:
> On a 2 hard-disk drive PC with Windows XP Professional and a Promise
> "Ultra133 TX2" ATA controller card
> (http://www.promise.com/product/subsys_detail_eng.asp?pid=87&fid=3) the
> Debian Installation System 3.0.23 (built on 15/05/02) gives the error
> message
>
> "No hard disk drives were detected"
>
> after the
>
> "Configure the Keyboard"
>
> selection is made.
Have you tried the other kernel images? E.g., bf2.4, idepci
> When an attempt to access the floppy-disk drive for the ATA controller's
> device drivers is made, there is an error message that states that the
> floppy-disk drive cannot be mounted. (The floppy-disk was formatted for a
> IBM compatible PC. The user has not used Linux before.)
Did you try floppy=thinkpad ? Sometimes that helps.
> Is the solution to be found in the following taken from the Debian web site
> (http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/)?
No.
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