Re: installing debian on SATA partition
On (10/01/05 15:07), Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > I recently tried installing Debian (sarge and woody) on a new 120gb
> > SATA hard drive. After I set up all partitions, I could not install
> > Debian (or Gentoo). When trying to install Debian, when I get to the
> > parition step, it tells me something like, "No partitionable media
> > found." I get the same error when I use the XP disk to partition the
> > hard drive. I tried partitioning and then formatting the partitions,
> > but that didn't work either. Right now, the computer has three
> > partitions, with Windows XP on the first one.
>
> It seems that the installer isn't seeing your SATA disk. To check this,
> during the installation you can hit Alt-F2 or maybe Ctrl-Alt-F2 (sorry,
> it's been years since I've done this, but I think it's one of those--
> check the installer help right when it starts) to get to a command
> shell. Then run one or more of the following commands, to find out what
> disks and partitions the kernel sees:
>
> # best: will show you everything in easily readable format:
> sfdisk -l
> # bare bones:
> cat /proc/partitions
> # check out each possible disk separately:
> fdisk -l /dev/hda
> fdisk -l /dev/sda # ... etc.
> ls -l /proc/ide
> cat /proc/scsi/scsi
>
> One or more of these should show you what the kernel sees. Probably
> it's not recognizing your SATA controller. If so, the only solution I
> know is to go ahead and install Debian on a PATA drive, then once you're
> up and running, build a custom kernel with the correct driver for your
> SATA controller build in (not as a module). Then install that kernel to
> boot from the SATA drive.
Alternatively, you could repeat the install thus:
boot: expert26
Which should allow you to load SATA support (and RAID if desired) during
the install ;)
Regards
Clive
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