I have tried some distros of linux but only a few ever work (ubuntu and zenwalk are the only ones). All other distros I have tested (debian, my own rbuilder distro, and foresight) do not work. They never can detect my hardrive. I have a hp dv6000t laptop. I do not know exactly what kind of hardrive is but when I installed ubuntu it said my hardrive was "SCSI1 100 GB ATA ST9100824A5".
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Jump to PostI checked the hp website supposdly I have a SATA hardrive not an ATA one. But whatever...
That's your problem. Many older Linux distributions (i.e. v2.4 kernels) still don't have kernel support for the newer SATA hard drives, and thus cannot recognize it. I had similar problems trying to run …
Jump to PostUmm...I have been looking around and supposdly a new debian version is coming this feb or mar. Will this new version have the new kernel?
Don't know; I don't really keep track of those sorts of things. ;)
And whats with these old kernels? I looked at slackware it seems …
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