Bug#245552: sarge installer error
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:47:09PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote:
> Debian-installer-version: 4-23-04 http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta3/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
> uname -a: Linux qo10 2.4.25-1-386 #1 Tue Feb 24 08:11:13 EST 2004 i686 unknown
> Date: 4-23-04
> Method: Boot from CD
>
> Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)>
> Processor: Dual AMD Opteron
> Memory: 8GB
> Root Device: SATA Name of device? ?? Sil 3114 SATA controller chip
> Root Size/partition table: could not see SATA disk to partition it
> Output of lspci: can't run lspci
>
> Somewhat detects existence of SATA disk, claims it needs ide-scsi
> module which doesn't exist, then goes to partion page with a blank
> default menu entry, hitting enter just returns to same page.
> Since SATA systems have become mainstream, support for this is
> really needed (the MS-Windows folks here just laughed and said
> that they could install Windows on the same system without problems).
type 'linux26' at the boot prompt (of a recent daily snapshot, which
seems to be the case here) to boot into Linux-2.6 and get SATA support.
Michael
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