Re: [opensuse] DVD Installation using Sony device


John Hughes wrote:
It's a Foxconn P9657AA motherboard with Intel E6300 dual core processor. The
motherboard has P965 + ICH8/ICH8R chipsets.


Probably your DVD is not being recognized by that current Kernel Driver.

Do you have your IDE BIOS settings at Compatible/Legacy mode ? If so,
try to switch it to AHCI/Enhanced...

Also, if you boot to your installation system with 'splash=verbose' you
can watch witch drivers are loaded to you IDE controller. If you look at
something like:

drivers, piix, ata_piix. etc...
loading piix

try to pass the option bronkenmodules=piix at boot. This way the driver
loaded will be the ata_piix.

If it still doesn't work, try to install openSUSE10.2 with openSUSE's
10.3 alpha installation CD. Then just add a recent kernel from SUSE HEAD
repository.

Hope it helps you...

Rui



John

-----Original Message-----
From: Rui Santos [mailto:rsantos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 01 April 2007 23:09
To: opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [opensuse] DVD Installation using Sony device


John Hughes wrote:

I've just built a new PC with a Sony AW-g170AB2 DVD+/-R/RW device

I've tried to install SUSE 10.1 from a DVD without success.

The PC boots up from the DVD without a problem. However when I select the
Installation option it says its cant find CD number 1. I guess it's a
problem with the device driver - or the correct one not being loaded.

Any one got any ideas how to get around this?


Which is your motherboard ?
Or Chipset...



John






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