Hi I am having trouble installing Debian (any version) on a SATA disk drive. I have downloaded 6 iso images in total and none of them work, netinst, testing and unstable.
The problem is it can't load the sata_sil kernel module, and once it has failed it seems to have problems reading from the CD/DVD drive. So I have followed the advice of others and used expert mode on testing, bypassed the loading of sata_sil and then just before the partitioning step tried to load the module by hand. But when I do that it says it can't find it in /lib/modules/2.4..... in other words a 2.4 kernel directory. This is weird because I am running on a 2.6 kernel as far as I can see and understand (expert on testing should be using a 2.6 kernel). I don't have any way of setting the "compatible SATA mode" in the BIOS so that's not an option. If I decide to install to an IDE drive, what would I have to do afterwards to move the installation to a SATA drive? This is an HP DX2200 P4 Celeron 2.9. The Ubuntu image I have hangs when Gnome starts. An old Knoppix disk I had laying around seems to work ok. Regards Olle -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.olle-eriksson.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
