How do you have the sata devices defined in the BIOS?

Try changing it to IDE or something similar and then booting with

                 linux all-generic-ide

You can also try

 		linux noapic

-Connie Sieh

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, 
J S Jayakumar wrote:

> Dear Troy,
>
>    Thanks for explaining the situation.  Output of lspci is given
> below.  It is generated while the machine (ASUS M3N78-EM motherboard
> with   NVIDIA GeForce 8300 chipset) was on openSUSE 11.0.  I also want
> to intimate you that the SATA hard disks are detected by Fedora 10 as well.
>
> 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Device 0754 (rev a2)
> 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 075c (rev a2)
> 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation Device 0752 (rev a1)
> 00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Device 0751 (rev a1)
> 00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation Device 0753 (rev a2)
> 00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Device 0568 (rev a1)
> 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Device 077b (rev a1)
> 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Device 077c (rev a1)
> 00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Device 077d (rev a1)
> 00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Device 077e (rev a1)
> 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation Device 0759 (rev a1)
> 00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0774 (rev a1)
> 00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 075a (rev a1)
> 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation Device 0ad0 (rev a2)
> 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0760 (rev a2)
> 00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 0778 (rev a1)
> 00:12.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 075b (rev a1)
> 00:13.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 077a (rev a1)
> 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron,
> Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration
> 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron,
> Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map
> 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron,
> Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller
> 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron,
> Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control
> 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron,
> Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control
> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GTS
> (rev a1)
> 04:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2380
>
> Jayakumar
>
> Troy Dawson wrote:
>> Hi,
>> My first word of advice.  Don't by Nvidia based chipsets.  I've been
>> saying that for years, and until NVidia decides to actually start
>> working with the open source community ... correctly, I'm going to
>> continue to say it.  Giving us binary drivers is not "working with the
>> community"
>>
>> Now that I'm off my soapbox (or whatever the equivalent is where you
>> live), let's look at the problem.
>>
>> Please send us the output of
>>   /sbin/lspci
>>
>> Also please note that SL is an enterprise OS, meaning that it takes a
>> while for newer drivers to make it into the release.  OpenSuse, like
>> Fedora, is not an enterprise distribution, so it always has the latest
>> kernel, and hense, the latest drivers.  And Debian 5.0 just barely
>> came out.
>>
>> That being said, if you give us an 'lspci' we can at least look at it.
>>
>> Troy
>>
>> J S Jayakumar wrote:
>>> Dear Troy,
>>>
>>>      I have tested RC dated 11March.  It is not able to recognise
>>> hard disks on ASUS M3N78-EM motherboard for AMD processors.
>>> Motherboard chipset is NVIDIA GeForce 8300. A Phemon processor and
>>> 8GB ECC DDR2 RAM are installed in the motherboard.  However, the hard
>>> disk is detected on openSUSE 11.0 and Debian 5.0 and installation is
>>> successful for these operating systems.  Kindly update the SL release
>>> candidate accordingly
>>>
>>> With regards,
>>> J S Jayakumar.
>>>
>>> Troy Dawson wrote:
>>>> J S Jayakumar wrote:
>>>>> Dear Troy,
>>>>>
>>>>>       As you know SL5.2 does not support many of the new mother
>>>>> boards and other hardware.  We are eagerly looking for the release
>>>>> of SL 5.3  Can you pl. tell the probable date of release?
>>>>>
>>>>> J S Jayakumar.
>>>>>
>>>> This is from the RC 2 release notes
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> The second release candidate for Scientific Linux 5.3 i386 has been
>>>> released for both i386 and x86_64 on March 02.
>>>>
>>>> Release Candidate 2 has everything the way it should be, including yum
>>>> and updates going to their proper place.  We will then let it sit for
>>>> almost two weeks as it get's it's final testing and pounding.
>>>>
>>>> If all goes well, we will incorporate any changes and release Release
>>>> Candidate 2.5 somewhere around March 10 or 11.  Release Candidate
>>>> 2.5 is
>>>> essentially the release and will only be changed if something critical
>>>> or major happens.
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> I would expect it's final release between March 13 and March 20.
>>>>
>>>> But you can always test before that. 5.3 Release Candidate 2 is what
>>>> is in 5rolling, and any changes between now and the release *should*
>>>> be fairly minor.
>>>>
>>>> Troy
>>>
>>
>>
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