Re: sata drives

[Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@nospam.net>]

duke_p@saunalahti.fi wrote:
> I am trying t o install debian testing to my new laptop, which has sata 
> haddrives, and I miserably fail when partitioning.. Installer notifies 
> that 'no partionable media found'
>
> I tried to boot with:
> linux26
>
> Any how I manage to boot with knoppix3.7 live cd just fine and the 
> harddrives are mounted there, so some how this is doable.. 

Can you partition your disk while in Knoppix? If so, check the list of modules that Knoppix3.7 loads 
(lsmod). Also check the running kernel config, which may be available as /proc/config.gz.

Sarunas