On 8/27/06, John Andersen <jsa@pen.homeip.net> wrote:
It does not say to remove the cd because it is not necessary, and it will be using it after it gets booted. Further, if it does fail you already have the cd in there to do recovery.
ok, thnx for the explanation
Sata is pretty standard, and SuSE detects them just fine. You can always press F5 and insert a driver disk, if you have one, and if it has linux drivers on it, but this seems highly unlikely that you will have such. The drivers in question are for the controller, not specifically the disk.
I have subsequently seen how the F5 option works, but you are right I don't have an updated disk, anyway
What install options did you choose when asked where to install the boot loader? Did you take all the defaults?
well I have run through this a bunch of times now, but basically always vanilla/defaults, with the only variations being the generic "safe install and no acpi settings" as well as different software choices.
the hardware compatibility list for your controller. Basically my experience is that its almost impossible to find a IDE or SATA drive that does NOT work with linux.
the system board is an Intel Desktop Board D101GGC -- the manual does not really say what the controller is, beyond that it is "serial ATA". It's a new board, I guess I would be shocked if it does not support linux. Peter