Re: Install on new M.B.

Aragorn wrote:
Gary Dale wrote:

General Schvantzkopf wrote:

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:20:33 +0000, kid wrote:

I Installed a motherboard (M2N32-SLI DELUXE ) on my
computer. I have tried installing suse 10.2 and 10.3. The result is
the kernel loads...then nothing. I think the problem is the SATA hard
disk. There is a driver on the manufacturers disk but either I am
doing something wrong or the driver is the wrong one.

After I bought it, I researched and some have problems and some don't
If anyone has a suggestion, please let me know. I would hate to waste
the money.
Try Fedora 8, it uses the most recent kernel.
Don't even try to use the driver on the manufacturer's disk. Just do a
stock install of Suse 10.3. If the install works, then you don't to do
anything more.

A bigger problem than a SATA disk drive is a SATA DVD reader. That's
where the system needs to load from initially. Sometimes it can start
the load using the BIOS to read the CD but then fails when it needs to
continue using its own drivers.

If you've got a SATA DVD reader, try installing a Parallel IDE reader
temporarily. Alternatively, set up the system to boot from a USB key and
install the CD to it (a whole different topic but check the web for
how to make a bootable USB key).

I'd be surprised if that were the problem for the OP. I'm currently setting
up Gentoo from the Gentoo 2007.0 Live CD on a machine with a double-layer
SATA Plextor DVD burner that doesn't have any IDE/PATA CD/DVD
reader/burner, floppy drive or PATA/SATA disks - in fact, it has 4 SAS
disks in RAID 5 on an Adaptec PCIe SAS RAID controller - and I've had no
problems whatsoever, even though the Live CD's kernel is still at 2.6.19.

SATA is an implementation of the SCSI protocol over an ATA bus, and
generally speaking, all kernels on fairly recent GNU/Linux installation
CD/DVD media - i.e. with a post-2.6.7 kernel - feature SCSI and serial ATA
drivers, loaded from within the /initrd/ at boot time. SATA or SCSI CD/DVD
readers should not pose any problem. But your mileage may vary, of
course. ;-)


Yes, but some distros are running 2.6.18 still. That seemed to be a good one but it lacked some SATA drivers that came later. Debian Etch is a case in point. It's not that old but I couldn't get it to install from a SATA DVD writer.

2.6.22 seems to be the kernel of choice right now so most SATA hardware should be good. And, he was also trying Suse 10.2 which isn't that recent...
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