Re: SATA controller not recognized by sarge

[Hannuman Bull <hannuman@bullwebsystems.com>]

Bela,

I just net-installed Sarge on my new gateway with a sata HD. I had to 
type "linux26" at the boot prompt. Otherwise, sarge would load the 
default 2.4.xx kernel and would not find the HD.

good luck,
--Hannuman


belahcene wrote:

> Hello  world,
> I 've just gotten a dell PC with sata controller HD ( model is  ata 
> ST3 800 13AS, driver ata_piix ), I  tryed to install sarge ( 
> netinstall  dowloaded in Dec 2004),  but it is not recognized, while  
> SL 3 (  scientific  Linux based  on RH , downloaded in Feb 2005 ) and 
> Fedora core 3, recogniaed the HD.
> I want to know if the newest  netinstall recognize this type of 
> hardware ?
> otherwise  howto install my sarge,  is there a possibility to add such 
> parameter to the boot.
>
> thanks in advance
> best regards
> bela