Re: fedora core 3 install error - no drives found
- From: Rick Moen <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:52:56 -0500
shellyshao <shellyshao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My harddrive is SATA. I have a DVD Rom.
>
> no, i don't have boot manager installed. At least, it is a brand new
> machine, I didn't install it myself.
>
> Please advise.
My first bit of advice is that you should never assume that people are
going to go out of their way to research the rest of a Usenet thread
(which isn't always possible, given non-uniform propagation of
articles), before attempting to help you. And they _certainly_ aren't
likely to do that if you reply to someone and don't bother to quote from
the prior article for context -- which you failed to do, in this caes.
_You_ are the person seeking help. It's in your interest to make it as
easy as possible for people to assist you. If you don't make at least
somewhat of an effort, the experienced users whom you're addressing are
very likely to just ignore your post and assist someone else who didn't
make the job needlessly difficult.
Our of curiosity, in this one case, I _did_ go look up what seems the
initial post in this thread (yours):
> I have a Dell Optiplex GX620. I already have Windows 2003 installed on
> C drive. I am planning to install Fedora Core 3 to D drive. But somehow
> I am trying to get a solution, so repost in this board. Your help is
> highly appreciated.
This is not a "board". This is a Usenet newsgroup carried on autonomous
news servers all over the planet. Each newsgroup's postings are
typically called "netnews" and individual postings are called
"articles".
> I got this error in the middle of installation.
> "An error has occurred - no valid devices were found on which to create
> new file systems. Please check your hardware to the cause of this
> problem."
>
> I believe both my C drive and D drive are NTFS. I heard some topic
> about not partitioning the D drive, but since I've already done so,
> might this cause the problem here?
No. It's good that you're trying to think this through, but you're
guessing somewhat randomly, at this point. What you really want to do
is just accurately describe the symptoms and then ask more-experience
Linux users their assessments. Let's take it from there:
The "no valid devices" message from Fedora Core's "anaconda" installer
_usually_ means that hardware autoprobing didn't succeed in finding a
mass storage chip it recognised well enough to load a driver.
See these pages:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ushankar/linux-dell.html
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Intel_945G
It turns out that the Dell Optiplex GX620 happens to be based on an
Intel 945G motherboard chipset, which has something like an Intel ICH6
south bridge chipset providing the hard drive support. You're probably
using a Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive, so you're going to be using the
ahci driver.
Basically, the GX620 is just a bit too new for the hardware
autorecognition code in Fedora Core 3's (FC3's) installer. There are
undoubtedly ways to finagle FC3 into installing anyway, but frankly
you'll be much better off using the FC4 installer, instead.
Consider that, please.
--
Cheers,
Rick Moen "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Elizabeth Tudor
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