Major laptop install problems

[Art Edwards]

Gary Allen Garibaldi wrote:
> Good day.
> 
> I've had major problems installing feisty fawn on my laptop. My Specs
> are: Toshiba Portege S100 S1133, 60 Gig HD, 1 Gig ram, Bios 1.50. The
> problem seems it can't find the hard drive. I've tried the Desktop which
> boots and partition fine but when I choose to install it stops at the
> partition section and can't find the hard drive. The alternate cd does
> the same thing. I tried every listed driver that is displayed with no
> luck in finding the HDD. I did a system dist-upgrade online and
> everything installed and on reboot it couldn't locate the HDD. I know
> Ubuntu use to work with this model of computer because I've used both
> 6.06 and 6.10.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestion I might try or am I just beating a dead
> horse and just plain out of luck for 7.04.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Gary
I had some problems with this because the kernel didn't see the sata
drive. In edgy, you should do an lspci, and an lsmod to see what kind of
driver you have, and what module edgy uses to access it. You may have to
roll your on kernel to do this (I had to on some westinghouse laptops
that are actually made by toshiba). On the 2.6.19 kernel, I had to use
the sata_sil module.

HTH

Art Edwards