I do not know about your motherboard, but my SATA drives show up as SCSI drives. I have no problem on running it. This is how my fstab looks like. /dev/sda6 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/sda1 /boot reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/sda7 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/sda8 /data2 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/sda10 /export/home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/sdb1 /export/home0 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sda9 /tmp reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/sda5 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs user,noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs user,noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid1,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /media/backup auto user,noauto,rw,exec 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /media/cfc auto user,noauto,rw,exec 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /media/usbdisk auto user,noauto,rw,exec 0 0 /dev/sdd1 /media/smc auto user,noauto,rw,exec 0 0 /dev/sdd1 /media/usbdisk_1 auto user,noauto,rw,exec 0 0 /dev/sde1 /media/msc auto user,noauto,rw,exec 0 0 /dev/sde1 /media/usbdisk_2 auto user,noauto,rw,exec 0 0 /dev/sdf1 /media/mmc auto user,noauto,rw,exec 0 0 /dev/sdf1 /media/usbdisk_3 auto user,noauto,rw,exec 0 0 When you first boot off the disk, you might want to see how your drives are going to be mounted. Take a look at /proc/mounts By the way, I use reiserfs for all of my drives except for the removeable drives. Frank L. Parks wrote:

Joseph,

Thanks for the reply. Maybe that's what I did wrong. I had been checking the lists and I had read that you need to make sure the bios is updated. I did that before I even started.

The fstab had a funky entry about /dev/root / ext2 for booting. I changed this to /dev/hds2 (I think) and reiserfs just as it showed in fdisk -p.

I'm totally lost. I've also had a friend helping me who actually has an upgraded model of mine up and running happily along. I'm going to continue to read the motherboard manual, etc.

I'm real close to swapping out the drive and just dropping in an IDE drive. I haven't had a problem with any of those.

I appreciate all of the suggestions. If you have any more, please send them my way.

Regards,

Frank

Joseph Loo wrote:

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Make sure you have the latest bios updates. Unitl I got mind updated, I could not boot from the SATA properly. I got it to load but not boot.

Frank L. Parks wrote:

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In answers to the questions asked:

1. No raid (should I?) 2. I found antivirus in one spot - DISABLED 3. PnP OS - Off

Still no luck.

Thanks and please keep trying. Because this is SATA drive, should I be "preloading" any modules? It seems to be trying. From checking out some of the other emails, it would appear that GRUB is not installed correctly.

Thanks,

Frank

Cristian Rodriguez wrote:

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2005/7/15, Frank L. Parks :

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Good Evening:

I'm having trouble installing 9.3 on an AMD64 system.

I'm trying to complete a basic installation. It goes through the first portion of it fine. The trouble occurs when it attempts to reboot to finish the install.

My screen comes up with GRUB Loading stage1.5. - then everything freezes.

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

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Frank

Disable "BIOS antivirus protection"(or similar) make you sure "PnP OS"(or similar) is Off

-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org