Re: 10.1 installation cannot find hard discs



Tony of Judicious wrote:

I am trying to do a clean install of 10.1 on a Dell laptop Inspiron 1501.

I have done this before OK on this machine but this time the installation
comes up with "Cannot find hard disc" after the licence agreement screen
I guess it is driver issue.  I have tried manually loading what appear to
be relevant drivers but not getting anywhere.  Any clues?

correct sata issue in kernel ;-)
get a distro with 2.6.21 or higher.

Why openSUSE 10.1?
get the new openSUSE 10.3
http://software.opensuse.org/
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