This is my first post and i have searched a bit to know about my problem but could not figure out anything so far and if its a double post my apologies.
Alright i have open suse 10.3 and i m trying to install on my desktop. In this desktop i have 2 sata hard disks one is 80 gb and other one is 160 gb. They both are internal. My motherboard is Asus A8V-VM, AMD 60 bit process and 512 mb ram. I have windows xp installed on my 60 gb hard disk.
Now i boot the pc with suse dvd and i get to through all the screens and when it comes to partitioning it says “No hard disk found” so i dont know how to resolve this.
How can i make the open suse recognize my hard disks and install it and do i have to create any raid partition for this. If so yes then pls guide to that how to create the raid partition.
>
> Hello all
>
> This is my first post and i have searched a bit to know about my
> problem but could not figure out anything so far and if its a double
> post my apologies.
>
> Alright i have open suse 10.3 and i m trying to install on my desktop.
> In this desktop i have 2 sata hard disks one is 80 gb and other one is
> 160 gb. They both are internal. My motherboard is Asus A8V-VM, AMD 60
> bit process and 512 mb ram. I have windows xp installed on my 60 gb hard
> disk.
>
> Now i boot the pc with suse dvd and i get to through all the screens
> and when it comes to partitioning it says “No hard disk found” so i dont
> know how to resolve this.
>
> How can i make the open suse recognize my hard disks and install it and
> do i have to create any raid partition for this. If so yes then pls
> guide to that how to create the raid partition.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> knight
>
>
Does your ASUS motherboard have SIS SATA controllers. If so 10.3 had a
startup problem and did not recognize them. There was a patch OS kernel
(2.6-18 I think) that you start the install with then switch to the DVD to
complete the install. I don’t have the url anymore. It fixed my ASUS P4 (32
bit) board problem. look at the 10.3 archives (mailing list) or bugzilla
may have all the old bugs, it was around for a few months.
Sorry I cannot be more help.
Why not download 11.0 ISO and install it? It istalled with no problem on my
same P$ board. Patch not needed.
The “no disk” error is usually because the installer did not detect the SATA disk controller and so was not able to automatically load the driver for you (btw, XP & Vista require the driver on separate media). Often the controller is in its own separate device on the motherboard; probably the case with yours. Your motherboard manual will tell you what it is. As #6 above describes, you can navigate your way through the driver menu and, even if you don’t know the driver’s name, you will probably be able to identify it by make/model.
Re: RAID. Probably the SATA controller also offers RAID as an option. It is enabled in the BIOS. The setup varies by device. If you don’t want to do that, just leave it disabled and the drives will be looked at only as SATA. (Linux provides OS software RAID as an option, but that is entirely different.)
EDIT: Just realized you are installing 10.3. In my posts above I describe aborting out of the installation to get to the drivers menus. I think it will work the same way with the 10.3 installer. If it doesn’t, work with it a bit to get yourself to the linuxrc - I know it’s there in 10.3, I used it many times. May even be right off the main menu in a selection under the “Driver” f-key. You’ll find it.
I’m having a similar problem on an ASUS motherboard with 2 SATA hd with both 10.3 and 11.0.
The strange thing is that it read the CD that is on the same board and interface. It tries to configure them as ahci, it crunchs a lot during the CD boot and then start. If you look at the kernel boot syslog, you see that the disks have been found.
Note: with ubuntu the disks are found and shown. I’m using from long time SUSE and I like it, but I don’t know how to solve this problem.