I haven't even got my install going properly yet, so this may be WAY off
base but:
Is that 2GB you have left set as a partition (eg: using Fdisk), or just left
as unallocated area? Wouldn't the system miss unallocated space (therefore
the "No valid devices..." error)?
As I said, probably NOT the solution, but the reply might help me learn.
-Carlton
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 7:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Install problems
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> The ATA/66 is on the board, no card. I have an ABIT BX6 II for my
> MoBo. Last night I got past the SCSI error and found this error at
> the HD detection phase of the install:
> "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."
> But here's the deal. I have already installed Win98se on this HD
> and have over 2gigs left for Linux. What is this all about?
It's almost assuredly a hardware/config defienciency. Try a bios
setting to change to ata/33, or simply replace the ata/66 IDE cable with
an ata/33 cable and see if that doesn't solve the problem. I suspect
Windoze works with it because it's more tolerant of marginal hardware
than Linux is. After/if that change to ata/33 works, then try going back
to ata/66 (tho it's hardly worth it IMNSHO).
IIRC, there's some problems with Abit and ata/66. To the point that
Abit even released their own Linux distro (Gentus?) to overcome it.
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
