Did some digging around in the BIOS... when I enable the SATA controller, the BIOS complains that it's not ATAPI compatible.
So... Linux loads the ata_piix driver to drive the SATA controller; this driver does not support ATAPI; qed the CDROM drive disappears. I tried brokenmodules=ata_piix and it asked for a driver disk. :-P Apparently without ata_piix, the hard drive (also PATA...) cannot be seen. I can't do a FTP install, even -- when ata_piix loads, it tries to initialize the CDROM and times out. So my only option would be to disconnect the CDROM, and boot from a USB flash disk, then do an FTP install. Craptacular. But apparently once you've got Linux running, you can recompile the kernel with ide_generic driver in the kernel, this will grab the CDROM drive and won't let ata_piix have it... so the drives would be /dev/hdX instead of /dev/sdX. Which is how Windows sees them. -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone." -- Bjarne Stroustrup _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
