Re: DELL 280 SATA multi-boot

Ed Patterson adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie and donned asbestos
underwear to post:

> Greetings,
>
> I am trying to install 9.3 Pro on a dell gx 280 with a 250 gig SATA> drive.
>
> I have XP installed on a 40 gig NTFS partition and a 50 gig FAT32
> partition for 'sharing' between the 2 OS's.
>
> When I boot from the 9.3 Pro CD I receive no hard disks found error.

> It wants me to manually specify the mount points (fat chance).
>
> The SATA controller is running in combination mode for Zen
Imaging....
>
> Ideas?
>
> Ed

SATA` need to be run in legacy or compatible mode for them to be
recognised by linux.

HTH
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