[Gllug] Installing Debian Sarge on a brand new SATA-based machine

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Wed May 10 10:59:32 UTC 2006


John Winters wrote:
> So far I'm unable to run the Sarge installer because the SATA disc isn't
> recognised by Sarge's 2.6 kernel.
> 
> Anyone know how I could bootstrap Sarge with a newer kernel which might
> recognise my SATA HD?


if you can boot using a rescue-cd'ish thing, and lspci -n;lspci -vv, it
might be possible to find out what interface is being used, and
therefore build a installtime module that might work....

- K

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