Ran into that one myself. Turns out the quick fix is to select the 2.6
kernel, and all works just fine. Use Linux26 our Expert26 at the
installer's initial boot prompt.
Miles Fidelman
Deephay wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> Currently I got a computer with a SATA hard drive (seagate
> ST3160811AS). I download a AMD64 sarge image and try to install debian
> on it, but it said something like "no partion media found", some
> google works hint me it may be a problem with SATA drive, so I grabbed
> a new Etch AMD64 image to have a look, and yes, there is no such error
> message like "no partion media found", instead, when it is the time to
> manually set the partition table, the installer did not list my
> current partitions at all (although there are 4 NTFS partions), this
> is the exact form:
>
> Guided partitioning
> Help on partitioning
>
>
> Undo changes to partioning
> Finish partitioning and write to disk
>
> Some discussions said that if you set your SATA to PATA from BIOS, the
> installer will recognize the drive, but after a few minutes search, I
> think my BIOS does not have that option.
> Any suggetion or solution is appreciated very much!
>
> PS: the motherboard of the computer is ASUS P5VDC-X (NorthBridge VIA
> PT880ultra, SouthBridge VIA VT8237A).
> and my knoppix liveCD seems did not recognize the drive either.
>
> TIA,
> Deephay
>
>