Re: Enterprise desktop 10 not recognising drives on VIA VT8237A.

John Bowling wrote:

Colin Stamp wrote:
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.
Similar to my problem with sata. My 300G sata drive has 10.1 installed
from when the mb was working. Replaced the mb and the new one has
different sata controller (sis965L). Drive starts to boot and crashes.
Can't go from the 10.1 DVD install and do a repair - it doesn't see the
drive.

David Bolt said the driver will be in 10.2 (see posts under Did I
already post RC1 is out?).
John

My new MSI P965 mobo has a jmicron ide chip that needs a driver from 10.2.
Without that chip the mobo won't even handle ide. I was successful booting
to a command-line install screen with a flash drive loaded with 10.2RC1.
Unfortunately the nic needs a new driver too, so I couldn't do a net
install. I'm torrent-ing the CDs now to see if I can get further.

--
Wake
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