bois sees hard drive but Suse Desktop 10 sp1 install does'nt

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#1

Hi All,

I am building a few new machines, so that next time a machine dies on me I’m not scrambling to replace it. They are ASUS P5Q SE2 mother boards one has a Intel Dual Core 2, the other has a Intel Pentium D. The bios seems to pick up the hard drives, but the suse Desktop 10 sp1 doen’t?

I am downloading the sp2 disk as well as open suse, but have had problems getting this in the past. But its going to take a day or so.

This is exactly what happens in the gui installer.

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probing hard disk controllers
loading linux modules for hard disk controllers

ERROR No hard disks were found for the installation.
Please check your hardware!

Any idea why this is happening. I am using a Seagage HD in one machine and a maxdor in the other machine. Also trying a mediamax hd now…

TIA,
Scott

#2

This is SLED right?

I’m not sure of your problem. But could be related to a BIOS setting AHCI

Perhaps look for it in your BIOS. I might be wrong - But I had to change mine to Compatibility Mode to get XP to work (I know XP - not the same:P) Just an idea.