Just to say it again. Please run the following commands on the SUSE
system and post it on the list. They will provide more info about your
system.

/sbin/lspci
/sbin/lsmod

    Urs


[MicroControls] Larry Linder wrote:
> To make sure that there was no hardware problem.  I kept the hardware the 
> same and loaded SUSE 9.1 on to the system.   I worked.   I looked at the 
> hardware and drivers from SUSE and it recognized both disks.   I could not 
> find the version of the SATA driver they were using.
>
> I then tried to load SL 5.3 on this hardware set and it halts at the same 
> place.  When you boot the sytstem you have to press F12 to get to startup 
> minue and select the DVD startup.   It does not happen automatically as with 
> other hardware suites.  I double checked the check sum on the down load and 
> it passed.
> I have to assume that SL 5.3 has a broken SATA driver or ?
> Is there anyway to set up a debug for the installation.   Since it happens 
> very early in the install it may not be very big file or RAM area.
> Any Ideas on how to find the answere.
> Larry Linder
>
> On Friday 10 July 2009 09:46, you wrote:
>   
>> Larry Linder wrote:
>>     
>>> System:  small ATA board manufactured by GIGABIT K8 Trinitron.
>>> This system currently runs SUSE 9.1 64 bit.
>>> It has two disks one 250G that I use for /
>>> and the other is a 500G SATA that is partitioned /engr
>>>
>>> I disconnected the OS disk SATA 1 and installed a new blank disk. Booted
>>> with a DVD containing SL 5.3 (dvd checked good)  It get so far into the
>>>
>>> installation - disk support - and it hangs up with no error message just
>>>
>>> dies in its tracks.
>>>
>>> The SL 5.3 installs fine on a large SCSI system, there is something wrong
>>>
>>> with the SATA driver - contained in SL 5.3
>>>
>>> Any way to determine what the failure is and is there a patch?
>>>
>>> Larry Linder
>>>       
>> Hi Larry,
>> Unlike IDE, SATA hardware is constantly being updated and changed, but
>> if SUSE 9.1 ran on it, then it is quite strange that SL 5.3 wouldn't
>> recognize it.
>> When you go into the BIOS, does it see the drives?
>> And what are the BIOS SATA drive settings?
>>
>> Troy
>>