Re: installing debian on SATA partition
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{No spider in the logo unfortunately.}
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 23:57 +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> 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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