Re: "no partionable media" error with sata disk
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:57:19PM -0800, burke murray wrote:
> 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
> ---------------
>
> 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
> ---------------------------
> 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.
left-alt+F2
Installer is on console 1.
The output of lspci -n |grep 010 should only be a couple of lines.
Len Sorensen
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