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linux installation problem - linux can't find hard disc
hi,
i bought a month ago the dell dimension 8300 *special edition november* personal computer.
because i do not like windows xp i now want to install my good old suse linux professional 8.2 on a partition i already created with partition magic...
well, and here's the problem, the linux setup doesn't work in any graphic-mode... the alert is always "out of scan range"...
so i wanted to install it through the text-mode..
the next problem is, that the setup doesn't recognize my hard drive...
there's an alert like this: "no hard drive found" (or a similar one)...
in another communities people told me to ask here, because this seems to be a problem with my bios...
can anyone help me please?
i bought a month ago the dell dimension 8300 *special edition november* personal computer.
because i do not like windows xp i now want to install my good old suse linux professional 8.2 on a partition i already created with partition magic...
well, and here's the problem, the linux setup doesn't work in any graphic-mode... the alert is always "out of scan range"...
so i wanted to install it through the text-mode..
the next problem is, that the setup doesn't recognize my hard drive...
there's an alert like this: "no hard drive found" (or a similar one)...
in another communities people told me to ask here, because this seems to be a problem with my bios...
can anyone help me please?
There is a german Linux-CD-System called Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.de). This Distribution boots without any problems from the CD and starts KDE. You can also access both partitions of the SATA-Harddisk from the Dell Dimension 8300 (strange, they where found as /dev/hde1 and /dev/hde2).
It is courious, that a almost unknown and small Distribution is able to access the SATA-Harddisc and the big SUSE-Copmany is not.
We will see what future brings...
- yes, but the problem is, knoppix is very slow, because it only boots from cd, and i do not realy like the soundof m dvd-rom ;)
in other forms someone said, he installed suse linux by using the installation with acpi disabled, but with my computer it did not work :/
i hope suse will find a solution soon... - Hi,
I do have the same problem. I'm trying to install Suse Linux Enterprise Server 8 on a Dell
Precision 650 having a PERC 320/DC Raid controller and 2 harddisks (Seagate, 73GB) connected.
Yast is not working in graphical mode, so I chossed text mode, and there, the HDD's are not
detected.
I also tried to add different raid driver (aacraid), but nothing works.
Also SuSE does not send any feedback to my request. Very poor support.
If somebody knows any solution, please let me know.
Regards,
haralds - Serial ATA HDDs are not supported by the Linux 2.4.x kernel. As far as I know you have to use the new 2.6.x kernel. SuSE Linux 9.0 uses the 2.4.21 kernel...
If installing in graphics mode does not work try to use the option "vga=normal" at startup of GRUB. - The Perc3/DC is a SCSI Raid controller, not a ATA.
Today, I received a message from SuSE stating out, that there are some new, updated (bugfixed)
ISOs available for the Enterpris Server 8.
Currently I am downloading those ISOs. No info about the used kernel (In the current version I tried to install, it was the 2.4.19-4GB which obviously had several problems as I read in the meantime).
I will post again when I was successful in installing Linux using the new ISOs.
jt.ritter
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Posted January 4th, 2004 19:00
hi K-Nikkel,
I have the almost the same problem with the dimension 8300 *special edition november* and suse linux professional 9.0. while booting from the cd yast find's the harddisc but tries to find hdb for at least a few minutes and then stop working...
I just posted this problem to suse but didn't get any answer up to now. i'll keep you informed if i get any answer. if you have a solution up to now please let me know.
yours
juergen