On Wednesday 13 December 2006 21:01, Bruno said:
> Yesterday I wanted to install 10.2 on my AMD64 desktop computer. But the
> installation hangs while initializing the hardware. More precisely when
> initializing the sata_promise module. With
> kernel-parameter 'brokenmodules=sata_promise' the installation continues,
> but this of course makes my harddisks unusable since they do not get
> detected. 

> I have found bug 227428
> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=227428) which sounds similar
> to my problem, but obviously sata seams to be a more general problem in
> 10.2. Should I open another bug-report or are you already working on that?

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=221600

> Is there a workaround so I can install 10.2? Can I modify the DVD or the
> install-cd to get a working kernel onto the boot media?

I have the same mainboard as you, but I've always just used the sata channels 
on the other (via8237?) controller.

FWIW Fedora Core 6 and Kubuntu Edgy also choke on this hardware.

Will
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