FC2 install superchoke

[worker201]

I am trying to help a friend install FC2 alongside winxp on his new Dell machine. Right when I click to use disk druid to partition, I get this error:

An error has occured - no valid devices were found on which to create new file systems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem.

Here, for your perusal, is the partition table we created with Partition Magic:

Dell Utility------------------FAT-------------------54.9MB
(first sector 63, last 112454)
Local Disk C---------------NTFS-----------------109552.6MB
(1st 112455, last 224476244)
Extended-------------------------------------------43017.8MB
(1st 224476245, last 312576704)
Local Disk F---------------FAT32------------------2055.2MB
(1st 224476308, last 228685274)
Local Disk E---------------FAT32------------------40962.6MB
(1st 228685338, last 312576704)

Hopefully it is clear that we created an extended partition to place Linux on, with 2 logical partitions, one for swap and one for /.

Now, my friend's computer is a newer Dell, and it has some weird stuff in it. This is what Windows reports for his hard disk controllers:

Intel 82801FB/FBM Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 266F

Intel 82801FR SATA AHCI Controller (IRQ 20)

Primary IDE Channel (IDE ATA/ATAPI controller) (IRQ 14)

I am assuming that we will need to pass some arguments to the kernel, or load some weird device drivers, but I didn't see any relevant drivers in the list.

Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. Google is remarkably silent when you have this much information.

[Tux]

It's the SATA. It's only just come into kernel 2.6 and AFAIK it's only for Promise equipment. Perhaps that chip is supported.

But I know for sure that the SATA will be the sticking point.