On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:33:05 +0000, Eva Myers <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> I'm having some trouble installing SL44 on a new machine from World of >> >> Computers. As far as WOC are aware, the only difference between this >> >> machine and the one I was asking about in December is that the IDE >> >> DVD-RW drive has been replaced by a SATA drive because they were >> >> having difficulty getting a different version of Linux to communicate >> >> with the IDE drive. >> >> >> >> However, the installation problems are quite different. Rather then >> >> freezing when I boot from the boot CD without any kernel options, the >> >> install process claims that it cannot find any hard drives. I tried >> >> using the all-generic-ide and pci=nommconf options - the hard drive >> >> was then detected, but the install process hung while formatting the >> >> root filesystem! >> >> >> >> The relevant hardware details (copied from the quotation) are: >> >> >> >> Motherboard + processor: Intel D965SSCK Core 2 Duo 6300 2MB cache >> >> Hard drive: 160GB - ST3160811AS - 7200rpm Serial ATA >> >> DVD drive: Samsung DVD RW (+/-) OEM Dual Layer/16xDVD+R,8xDVD+RW,16xRead-SATA > >> SATA works fine in SL44. Has worked for a long time now. >> >> I suggest that you look at the 2 systems and look for bios differences. >> >> You could also run memtest86 to make sure you do not have a memory >> problem. > >They appear to have different BIOS versions - the newer machine has >MQ96510J.86A.1614.2007.0105.1345 and the older one has >MQ96510J.86A.1545.2006.1101.2008. > >Apart from that, everything in the BIOS appears the same. In >particular, they both have the following settings under Advanced -> >Drive Configuration: > >ATA/IDE Mode: Native >Configure SATA as: IDE >S.M.A.R.T: Enable >Hard Disk Pre-Delay: 0 > >Eva. >========================================================================= Can you try to configure SATA as AHCI in your BIOS? That works fine for my Core-2 / P965 board. Also use the SATA connections from the P965 and not (if available) the ones from the JMicron RAID controller (this one is only supported in kernels >= 2.6.18) Paul