sigh, there's no new BIOS updates available
On 8/2/06, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> 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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