Re: installing debian on S-ATA drives

[elijah wright <elw@stderr.org>]

> I have PC with only SATA drives and I would like to install my favourite
> distro (debian of course;-) but the installer (the latest I tried was
> the floppies package from the 21st April) does not recognise the drives.
>
> It automatically loads kernel 2.4.25-1 with does not contain support for
> them.

2.4.25 has worked for other people with SATA drives and controllers
       (including me - intel ICH-style controller), but may not have
       drivers for your particular hardware.

> I understood kernel 2.6 contains support for them but how can I make the
> installer load 2.6 kernel instead of 2.4 ?

i hear that joey hess is working on this :)

elijah