Bug#519496: installation-reports: installer can't detect hard drive

[jay <jsfisher@sdf.lonestar.org>]

Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
This build finished at Wed Mar 11 03:23:33 UTC 2009
Date: Thu Mar 12 11:00:00 UTC 2009

Machine: IBM ThinkPad T60
Processor: Intel T2500
Memory: 2075 MB
Partitions: ??
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [O]
Configure network:      [O]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [E]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Install base system:    [ ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
User/password setup:    [ ]
Install tasks:          [ ]
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Overall install:        [ ]

Comments/Problems:

Installer failed to detect hard drive, couldn't proceed beyond this point. Installation failed.
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