Re: installing debian on S-ATA drives

[George Papamichelakis <george@step.gr>]

Patxi Ontoso wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried booting linux26 using netinst and businesscard
> images (from 26th April) and both gave me the same
> problem. The installer could not find the CDROM. If I
> load kernel 2.4 it finds it but then I don't have SATA
> support...
>
> I guess it needs the 2.6 modules for my CDROM. I tried
> to load them with cd-drivers.img floppy image but it
> could not load it (I guess the floppy contains only
> 2.4 modules)
>
> Is there a CD image/floppies with 2.6 kernel and
> modules? 
>
> Thank you
> Patxi
>  
I'm trying also the current dailly build  of netinst and I'm having  the 
same
problem plus this : when I activate the second console and try to manually
load the sata_via module the first console becames unusable (black& red  
scrambled text)
fot no apparent reason (to me at least) . This happens with kernel 2.6 , 
with kernel
2.4 everything is going smooth but no sata  :(
The machine is an AMD64  3000  and I'm almost fed up trying
to make it work with woody & sata drives  :(

George