> The problem is not that the controller is not supported, but rather that > it is not yet recognized by the installer. > See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278203 oh? When I tried this it looked like there was no support from upstream for SATA (ata_piix) and I couldn't see that it had been patched in either. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=275428