Re: "no partionable media" error with sata disk
Hi,
I just built a machine and I am trying to install sarge. The installer does recognize the sata hard disk, and reports "no partitionable media were found". I have tried "linux26", "expert26" and the testing etch installer with no luck. I have also tried all of the bios sata choices with no luck (SATA as storage, SATA as RAID, Enable SATA as IDE). Using the expert26, it gave me a long list of drivers and I tried several but I have no idea which might work.
The machine was able to boot from a DOS floppy disk, then partition, format and use the hard disk from DOS, so I know that the hardware is working. Here is the setup:
Motherboard: MSI RS482M-IL
CPU: AMD Sempron 3100+
Disk: WD 250 GB 2500KS SATA
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
I also posted on forums.debian.net in the installer forum. I am not sure which place is more appropriate/widely read.
Burke
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Could you do that without HTML so all of us can read that?
Also ATI chipsets have VERY VERY bad support, although 2.6.12
seems to
help. 2.6.8 (what sarge uses) is pretty hopeless.
Perhaps your chipset requires an even newer kernel. An lspci
list would
be handy, at least for the storage controller:
lspci -n |grep 010
You can do that pretty much any time during the install by
going to
console 2.
Len Sorensen
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Thanks for your help, and sorry about the HTML. I pasted the original message above in plain text.
How do I switch to console 2 during the install? And if I did, how would I capture the output since I don't have a working disk? I guess I could read it on one screen and type it into another (ten finger interface) but that seems painful.
Burke Murray
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