Re: sarge installation fails to detect hd
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 03:44:57PM -0800, Ruben Lopez wrote:
> I have a sarge .iso that I downloaded from debian.org and I am not able to
> complete installation because the installer apparentlly cannot read a hard
> drive. I have tried installation on two different systems - an ASSA mobo
> with a VIA chipset, and an Intel board. I have also tried installation with
> different drives, including 2 different Maxtors and a Seagate. The results
> were all the same - the installations process stalls at "Partition a hard
> drive". When I select the 'Partition..." option, the screen blinks, then the
> menu reappears with the "Partition..." option selected and the system does
> nothing. I started ash and tried to run cfdisk, but all I get is an error:
> "FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive. Press any key to exit". I notice that
> many people are running sarge, so I'm a bit disappointed that I cannot even
> get it installed. Right now I'm d/ling a sid iso to give that a try.
>
Tel us more about your hardware.
Is it known it runs Linux?
Can you provid us the output of lspci and lspci -n ?
>
>
> Ruben
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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