Re: sata drives

[p_s <duke_p@saunalahti.fi>]

Sarunas Burdulis wrote:
> 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.

I was able to do that, the mods were in the parent of this thread.. I 
was busy to get this machine up and running and I managed to get things 
rolling with Gentoo liveCD and I am now setting this machine up with 
it.. The issue was propably related to modules ata_piix and ide_scsi.

Thanks any way all who took part.
PETE