Alain, How did you do this? Did you do it in the first part of the install or as a passed parameter? I don't have an IDE installed. Thanks for the extremely quick reply! :-) Frank Black, Alain wrote:

Frank,

What driver are you using? The onboard RAID is not real hardware RAID and requires drivers to make it work.

I went the route of configuring software RAID instead of using my onboard VIA and have been quite happy with it.

-Alain.

-----Original Message----- From: Frank L. Parks [mailto:fparks@ezbizpartner.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 1:20 PM To: SuSE AMD64 Subject: [suse-amd64] Problems Installing 9.3 on DFI K8M800 - Please Help

Good Afternoon:

I am attempting to install SuSE 9.3 on a DFI Motherboard K800M800-MLVF utilizing the onboard VT8237 serial controller in RAID 1.

I have updated the mobo bios to the latest available.

I have entered the VIA bios and configured it as RAID 1 with the two Seagate 160MB SATA Drives.

I then do the install of SuSE 9.3. It gets through the first portion of

the install with no problems. On reboot before the second portion, the system hangs with GRUB Loading stage1.5.

The motherboard is a DFI K8M800-MLVF with 512MB RAM and an AMD64 3000+.

What other information can I provide so that I can get the thing up? Just booting from the CD seems fine. I can even boot into rescue mode.

I sure that I'm missing something simple, but unfortunately I don't have

a clue.

Thanks in advance,

Frank