no partitionable media found

[octavius]

hey everyone,ive been trying forever to install debian and i finallly got the disks and everything i need however,when i install it says "no partitionable media found check to see if a hard drive is connected to this computer"

i have a SATA drive and have heard that there could be problems with them,would this be the reason?If so is there any way taht i can fix the problem
any help is greatly appreciated as i am greatly frustrated right now and have been for the last week or so.
ps i have a windows partition and a free partition both are 35 gb(each)
would it help if i conigured the free partition to use fat 32 with qtparted then installed?

[Acron_0248]

Try reading this

Reegards


Bye

[octavius]

that is interesting ,but i am not trying to set up raid
i jsut want my single sata drive to be recognized by the debian installer so that i can install.that is all im asking for but as with my internet,usb flash drive,wireless adapter,and ethernet card,it is too much to ask for
nothing going right im aobut one day from giving up on linux and going back to my ******,yet usable,windows

[farslayer]

When you boot from the Debian install CD (I'm asuming you are using the 3.1r1 stable version..) at the boot prompt type linux26 that will tell the installer system that you want to install the 2.6 kernel instead of the 2.4 kernel. The 2.6 kernel has a better chance of being able to utilize your SATA Drive than the older kernel. That may solve your problem.

IF that still doesn't work you could try using hte testing netinstall CD> to install. it will by default install a much newer 2.6 kernel, and should do a better job of detecting hardware as well.

here's a link to the Testing Netinstall iso for Intel CPU's this .iso is around 100MB
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/da...86-netinst.iso

[djhobo9]

I experienced incredibly slow recognition and formatting time on my SATA drives until booting into install with a 2.6 kernel. Judging from this and your issue with the e1000 module, I'd bet this is your problem. Follow farslayer's advice on linux26 and you'll see alot of things run more smoothly (in relative terms of course... we are still talking about the quirky debian-installer).

Good luck!

[octavius]

wow now im excited that all of my problems could be solved by typing a single line in
this is great news and i dont think im going to give up after all
im going to go and try this now

[octavius]

ok guys i tried loading the 2.6 kernel and it did load it,it said so underneath,however it still did not find my ethernet card nor did it find a partitionable media.

very frustrated
not going well
sentence fragments
loud noises

[farslayer]

Do you have some odd chipset on your motherboard ?

Is your motherboard bleeding edge hardware ?

Hardware decisions should be your number one thought when gettgina system to run ANY OS on.. the cheapest motherboard on the block is sure to also be the most trouble when it comes to locating drivers for things..

If you are running mainstream hardware you shouldn't run into too many problems with Linux being able to detect your devices..

I would do a search for your Motherboard model number and Debian or Linux in Google and see if you come back with any helpful hints, or lookup the board on the manufacturers site and see what chips it's using for the SATA controller, etc.. Install really shouldn't be that difficult.