New subject: [suse-amd64] SATA problem

28 Feb 2004

Hi,

I've tried installing Suse on my machine but it can't see the hard disk
(SATA, Promise RAID controller) and understand that only Kernel 2.6 supports
this. Since I can't install Linux I can't compile a new Kernel to see the
disk drive (I've never compiled a Kernel before so would all be a bit of a
learning curve anyway).

I've considered buying a second EIDE hard disk and using this for Linux
instead but still want to be able to boot into WinXP/2000 (I'm a developer
and need all 3 systems) on the SATA drive. Can I do this by (say) creating a
boot CD-ROM for Suse to load from, or somehow installing a boot loader on
the EIDE drive that boots to the SATA drive. How would I go about doing
this?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

David