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I have asked this question before but I didn't get much out of the answer.
I have tried now several times to install Slackware 10.1 with my Intel sata chipset on a SATA drive without any luck. I boot with the image sata.i.
Instead of detecting my disk as sda it detects as hda that I know is wrong.
I read something in a post that suggested to boot with the line:
sata.i hda=noprobe
But that didn't work.
Since I don't have any floppydrive I can't use bootdisks.
Does anyone know anything I can try? I can't be the only one with this problem.
I think it does and I was told it is wrong if it is hdx. It should detect as sdx and it did for me in slack 10 with a custom made cd, but not with 10.1.
No I don`t. That was also the issue when I used 10.0. When I installed with slacks kernel 2.4.x it detected it as hdx so someone made me a custom cd with 2.6.x and then it worked. I read somewere that slack 10.1 has kernel 2.6.10 if you whant to use it. But can you select 2.6.10 at install instead of the default one?
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