---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Matthew Stringer <qube@firstnet.co.uk> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 15:16:08 +0000

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Concerning the BIOS setting, its a Phoenix BIOS. In order to access the SATA info you have to hit <TAB>. When you hit <DEL> to enter the normal BIOS stuff there is no mention of the SATA drives. The <TAB> section displays two channels, with nothing on channel one and my 80 gig drive on channel 0.

Does this tell you what you need to know?

Matt

Although it doesn't help I had this same problem with a Phoenix BIOS'ed mobo and SATA drives. Made no diff what version of Suse/Fedora I used it wouldn't boot.

In the end I swapped the mobo, but with same IDE SATA controller and disks it worked fine.

Matthew

Matthew, In researching this problem I came across some discussions concerning the VIA chip set which is on my MOBO. So far everything is working fine after I changed the bootloader to LILO and finished the install. Unless I learn a compelling reason to change from LILO back to GRUB I think I'll just leave well-enough alone. Is there a reason I should try to get back to GRUB ??? Matt