You might want to contact ASUS tech. support to see if there are any new
drivers or BIOS updates.
Deephay wrote:
> Hi, in my case linux26 doesn't work
>
> On 8/2/06, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
>> 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
>> >
>> >
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