Adding SATA driver to kernel during OS installation

[Paul Howarth]

Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I did try that approach and while the initial
> installation did appear to go by without incident. After I rebooted the system
> upon completion of the installation, I was confronted with the 
> following error message:
> 
> 				operating system not found
> 
> It would appear the drivers are loaded during the installation but are 
> not retained thereafter.

That looks like a BIOS error meaning it can't find a bootloader on your 
hard disk, rather than a linux driver issue, which would only present 
itself sometime after the kernel had started running. Does your BIOS 
recognise your disk(s) and did you install grub in the MBR?

Paul.