Enterprise desktop 10 not recognising drives on VIA VT8237A.
- From: Colin Stamp <col.dustbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:11:04 +0000
Hi all.
I'm a Linux novice, I'm afraid, but I'll explain as best I can...
I've just put together a PC with the following bits...
ASRock 775DUAL-VSTA motherboard (VIA VT8237A storage controller)
Pentium D 945 processor
512Mb RAM
LITE-ON SATA DVD writer
Maxtor SATA hard drive
Using Enterprise Desktop downloaded from the Novell website and burned
to DVD, the machine boots and shows the welcome screen. It then says
it can't find the installation CD and reverts to manual installation.
The manual installation asks for language and keyboard layout then
refuses to go any further since it still can't mount the installation
CD.
Things I've tried...
Loading the VIA SATA kernel module (I didn't put in any parameters) -
No change.
Loading various random other SATA modules - No change.
Fitting an IDE DVD drive - No change.
Plugging in the IDE DVD drive in a USB box - This gets round the
"can't find CD" problem, but the installation then stalls because the
hard drive can't be found.
Fitting an IDE hard drive along with the USB DVD drive - Still can't
see the hard drive.
Installing an Ancient copy of Windows XP Home (using the SATA drives)
- All works fine.
I've pretty much come to the conclusion that Linux has a big problem
with the VIA VT8237A chip that controls both IDE and SATA on my
motherboard. Does anyone have any ideas how I can get around this -
I've about reached the end of my knowledge and I *really* don't want
to go crawling back to Microsoft :o(
Cheers,
Colin.
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