[PLUG] Debian Install

[Elliott Mitchell]

>From: "Piet van Weel" <pmvw at wbcable.net>
> I've got a nice new DELL XPS2 Laptop. 
> 
> It comes with the SATA drive.
> 
>  
> 
> Yet for some reason the Debian install can't see the hard drive.

How far does it get? Does it boot? Does it get to detecting hardware and
simply doesn't find the drive?

I think you pegged the most likely issue. Mainly many SATA controllers
don't look like normal IDE controllers. The first thing I can think of to
do is tell it to boot the 2.6.8 kernel (more recent drivers) rather than
the 2.4.27 kernel (the conservative default).


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