Troy Dawson wrote:
J S Jayakumar wrote:
Dear All,
I was trying to install SL5.2 on an ASUS M3N78-EM
<http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=149&l3=676&l4=0&model=2319&modelmenu=1>
mother board with has NVIDIA GeForce 8300 chipset. During the
installation, it fails to recognise the SATA hard disk controller and
aborts the installation with the message that No hard disk is found.
Can you pl. suggest a solution to this problem?
J S Jayakumar
Step 1 - Convince Nvidia that closed sourced drivers make it really
hard to do an initial install.
Step 2 - Use those open source drivers that they provide
Step 3 - wake up because step 1 is going to take a few more years.
Or were you wanting a more immediate solution :)
I don't have an nvidia based chipset, so I'm going off of memory,
maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
One thing to try is to change the setting in the bios from SATA Raid
to SATA IDE (or whatever it isn't right now, change it to the other
setting)
I think another thing to try is to pass the noapic option when you
start, so it would be something like
linux noapic
I'm also not sure of this one, but there is a SATA driver that doesn't
like to be loaded after the USB driver, so you have to do a
linux nousb
But that only works if you have a keyboard that isn't USB.
Troy
I've been playing with ddiskit lately, if there is a compilable driver,
you could use that to generate a Driver Update Disk to insert during
installation. I can help you if you are having trouble.
I also don't have an nvidia chipset here to test. I doubt the noapic is
going to help much, as it seems to be a lack of driver and not an
interrupt related issue. You could try 'linux all-generic-ide' as well
though. I've had very good luck with this getting SL to recognize newer
controllers as generic IDE. It is now standard boot option for the
livecds I generate.
Good luck,
Mark
