Re: SATA disk drivers missing from Debian 5.0.3 network installer

[Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be>]

On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 11:06 -0800, Rigoberto Corujo wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am a new Debian user and am trying to install 5.0.3 over the
> network.  My server has SATA drives and the installer isn't
> recognizing them.  In other words, "cat /proc/partitions" shows
> nothing.

You might want to try configure your SATA controller in "Compatible"
mode in the BIOS (instead of "AHCI")

> 
> I noticed that the network version of the "initrd.gz" file is missing
> the ata_piix.ko and libata.ko drivers.   These drivers are present in
> the Debian distribution, however.  I tried copying the distribution's
> ata_piix.ko and libata.ko drivers into the initrd.gz, but they won't
> load because "insmod" says "Invalid module format".   Does anyone know
> if there's a workaround for this problem? 

Is Debian-Installer booting ? (the initrd in D-I includes all the
sensible drivers. BTW, on installed systems, the initrd is built with
'MODULES=most' in initramfs.conf, by default)

Which Debian-Installer do you use ?
Where did you get the .ko modules from ?

Franklin