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My motherboard isn't the exactly same (it was a Intel P5KSE) but it has very
similar characteristics (lots of sata ports, same IDE channels) except a
different chipset. My problem was with a marvell chip that handles the IDE
channels that hasn't a ahci mode.
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So, ahci is indeed the way to go? We tried that, but with the cd install.
Didn´t go further, but as we are trying with the usb stick, shall we use
ahci?

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I don't know if your problem is similar to mine. Are you installing from a
IDE CD drive?
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Not sure. I´ll figure that.

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I remember installing from USB was easy - I mean it was very similar to a CD
install.
The images are here: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

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Good to know. What arch you used? Only one more thing: i didn´t find the usb
stick images in the link you pointed above. They lead to here, but no usb
stick images.
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/
http://people.debian.org/~aba/d-i/images/daily/


Thanks for your support!


Bruno

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> I don't know if your problem is similar to mine. Are you installing from a
> IDE CD drive?
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The drive is sata.