You could try the  "all-generic-ide" boot line option.

How do you have the bios set for SATA.

-connie sieh
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, 
Karl Misselt wrote:

> Connie Sieh wrote:
> > Can you send a lspci of this system.
> >
> > On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Karl Misselt 
> > wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Kuo-Rong Lei wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hi, all:
> >>> We get a new PC use ASUS P5B motherboard and it's chipset is Intel P965.
> >>> Now we try to install SL4.4 , but system can not find hard disk to
> >>> partition to install.
> >>> Is there any one know how to install ??
> >>> Thanks. Kite
> >>>       
> >> sorry to follow up on my own reply - the ASUS P5B looks to have
> >> a JMicron JMB363 SATA controller onboard. I've no idea if there's
> >>     
> >
> > I guess I knew that the JMicron Ide controller did not work but did not 
> > know about the SATA not working.
> >   
> 
> Looks like the JMB363 SATA controller has support in 2.6.16-x kernels:
> http://www.jmicron.com/JMB363.html
> Makes me think it might be possible to build the driver and load it on 
> install.
> Or wait until it gets patched into vendor kernels. 
> -K
> 
>