Hi
I have just built a new system which is based around the AMD Phenom quad core, I have used an FXF GeForce 8200 Mainboard. When I try to install Suse 11.0 64 bit the OS cannot find the HDD. I have read the sticky,from"OldPc", about Sata installs and have tried searching for the correct Kernel/Driver to try to install, but with no luck. Can anyone help me out with this?
Thanks in advance for any help given.
Have you tried booting a cd like parted magic to see how it picks it up.
Hi, thanks for the reply.
I have just tried Parted Magic, it also only picks up my IDE drive, no sign of the Sata drive, the drive shows up in the system BIOS when I go into this at startup.
i removed two IDE drives and hooked up a SATA drive and ran into the
EXACT same problem…
the fix was to go into the BIOS setup and turn on the motherboards raid…
don’t ask me why, but now it works…
so, take a look in your bios setup, see what is there…
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via NNTP, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, KDE
3.5.7, SUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.18-0.2-default #1 SMP i686 athlon
Hi
Thanks for the reply. I have tried installing with the RAID setting on, but again the disc is not found.
At the DVD installation menu in the box below type the following kernel argument:
pci=nomsi
I think the kernel modules you need are AHCI and amd74xx.
Firts of all,I want to appologise for taking so long to reply, I have had a hard few days at work. That worked mingus725, but after I applied all the updates and restarted the system I received the following error
“could not start kdeinit4. check your installation”. At the moment I’m doing a re-install, I will let you know how it goes.
Again, thanks for the help.
It is likely you got that error due to a glitch in KDE 4.0 vis-a-vis your machine. KDE 4 is very new and still in heavy development; the 4.0 version that’s an option with 11.0 had a number of problems. You can do one of two things:
Install KDE 3.5.9 which is very nice and quite stable, and then install KDE 4 thereafter or later as it matures. KDE 3 and 4 can co-exist, and you can choose which GUI to start up at the login screen.
Alternatively, you can stick with KDE 4, in which case you need to update to 4.1 straightaway. From the openSUSE home page follow the package repository links to the KDE page and then down to the “Factory 11.0 KDE 4.1 Desktop”, and the accompanying “Extras” and “Community” repositories (be sure not to use KDE 4 Stable or Unstable). Note: These repositories are frequently updated; they are in the “Factory” development flow. It’s possible to install at a point in time where there is an incompatibility, and there will be bugs in some packages. It’s possible to hit a glitch like you already did, and have to wait until the next package version fixes that (usually a couple days) or hack around it. Search the forums on “checkerboard” to see a recent worse-case example.
All sorted !
Reinstalled, dropped down to KDE3.5 and all is well. I have also installed KDE 4.1 on both this machine and my (now) old machine, I will play around with KDE4.1 on the old machine before trying anything on this new set-up.
Thanks again for all the help given.
Terrific! Glad to have been of some help. 