in RHEL4, use "all-generic-ide" boot time paramater during installation to use the generic sata driver. hope this solves it
On 8/3/06, DoOrsOfpErcEpTioN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all... > > I am practicing for RHCE exam.. and i have a small complication. > I recently assembled a new system which is AMD64 939 and the > motherboard is based on Nforce n430 chipset. I have Hitachi 160Gb > sata-II hard drive. > > My older comp hosts an apache server with all the installation files. > On remote installation's partition part.. i switched to tty2 and did > fdisk -l <Enter> > Now, apart from sata hard drive i have connected old 20GB IDE drive > too. And thats where i have been installing all the time.. (i mean i > had suse 10RC3 earlier) and SUse machine as well as Ubuntu shows my > sata drive as /dev/sda on doing fdisk -l > But RHEL AS 4 doesnt show the drive during installation nor after it!! > I think kernel 2.6.9-5 should support sata.. shouldnt it? > > Does anyone have explanation to this problem? > Ohh BTW.. BIOS shows the sata drive all the time. > And it contains windows OS with 4 NTFS partition and 2 FAT32 partition. > that shouldnt be a cause of problem! > > ~ anup > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ***Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxvadapav/messages ***Group Usage Guidelines (Please Read): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxvadapav/files/mailing_rules Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxvadapav/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
