Re: Debian-installer beta3 may detect SATA ide controllers automatically?

[George Papamichelakis <george@step.gr>]

Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:11:54PM +0200, Pere Castañer wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm testing the beta3 of debian installer. I'm using a MSI KT6 Delta basesd on VIAKT600 chipset with VIA VT8237 chipset for raid and SATA.
> > The debian installer don't detect any hdd, and the bios do it.
> > I need to put the module manually? How?
> >    
>
> There exists a patch that should hopefully fix your problem.
> Pleae check that patch adds support for your controller.
> It seems to be added as vendor='1106' model='3149'.  Output of
> lspci and lspci -n would be nice.
>
> See debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=244470
>
>
> Kurt
>
>
>  
it's out of topic, but I just had the same problem  with an amd64 
machine,  and I was thinking
why the installer doesn't warn the user when it boots into a system that 
it cannot find
a hard disk for installation?  I know experienced users can surely find 
out why, but what
about more novice users ?

George