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Installing RH Linux 9 on SATA HDD

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by venu8199 2 views

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My PC consist of Intel 915 chipset motherboard, with 3 Ghz processor and Western Digital SATA hard drive, for windows installation it is fine and speed is very fast but while installing linux either mandrake 9/redhat 9.0 it doesn't go well and give the message that an error occured. No hard drive found. So for this linux installation what will be my bios setting and one thing more in the begining pc unable to recognise the hard drive but any how this problem is shorted out but linx installation is still a problem for me please suggest.

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by nico baggus

At least the kernel that is delivered with RH9
doesn't know about sata..., that would explain
the missing disk... It just cant find a IDE/SCSI
controller. (kernel 2.4.20 that is)
Kernel 2.4.26 at least knows about sata...
Kernels of 2.6 should know about sata
controllers.

Try a more recent unix: mandrake^H^H^Hiva 10, or
White Box linux (RHEL 3, without the support
contract, or a live CD like gentoo, knoopix of
[k]ubuntu.

kind regards,
Nico

by adraina.lima

From where i can download White Box linux for mandrake linux...
Please provide the link , if possible..

Thanks,,,,

by jmgarvin

RH9 and the 2.4.20 kernel don't know about SATA. You need to get a more modern distro like:
Fedora Core 3
Gentoo
Ubuntu

What are you planning on using this box for? If you need this for a business server I would suggest:
Red Hat Enterprise 4

Long story short: You need the 2.6.* kernel or the 2.4.30 (latest stable that actually should detect SATA on setup).

If you are dead set on RH9, install it on a IDE drive, get the newer kernel, the SATA drivers, and all the dependencies you need and then network install the image from that machine to your SATA machine.

by shyamswaroop

Installing SUSE 9.1 / SUSE 9.2 Could Solve All Your issues.HP Desktop D7100 Series Comes with Preloaded SUSE 9.2 Desktop Edition.

HP D7100 Model Comes with a SATA HDD

Probably That Should Solve Your Problem verymuch

by lieuquocdat

lacks of dirver for SATA HDD
You have to support fdd driver by pressing F2 from setup Linux screen

by abhishekjha.18

I didn't understant your reply???? what actually happens when i press F2. could you explain me that? please

by sachinr2fun

Red hat linux donot support sata hard disk you can install linux on Pata hard disk.

Also some hp laptop doesnot support linux installation.

by sachinr2fun

Red hat linux donot support sata hard disk you can install linux on Pata hard disk.

Also some hp laptop doesnot support linux installation.

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