[TAG] Debian Installation

[Neil Youngman]

Well I've had enough of the creeping bit rot in my Mepis installation and I 
want to be rid of Mepis. I'm trying to go back to a plain vanilla Debian 
installation. I've also recently upgraded my system with a SATA conroller and 
a 200GB hard disk, onto which I tried to install Debian with the Debian 3.1 
net installer.

The default install hung, so I went for the "expert" install and got an 
installation on the SATA disk. It's definitely there, I can see it, but I 
can't boot from it. 

It's on /dev/sda5, and grub loads the kernel up, but the kernel panics because 
as far as it's concerned /dev/sda5 doesn't exist. I can only assume that the 
kernel it has installed doesn't have the right module (SiI3112) installed for 
the SATA controller. 

Is there a way to check what modules are built into this kernel? 

Is there a simple way around this? 

Is it best just to build my own kernel to replace the one that has been 
installed? 

Neil Youngman