I had the same problem with a Dell Precision 370 and Red Hat Linux.
Out of frustration I changed the BIOS so that SATA-0, SATA-1, SATA-2, SATA-3, PATA-0 and PATA-1 were ON. Initially they were all OFF except SATA-0 and PATA-0. (And it worked..)
Also as recommended on linux.dell.com site, I had the 'SATA Operation' mode to [RAID-Autodetect / ATA].
I downloaded all of the driver sets from support.dell.com for versions of Red Hat. eg. ata_piix-0.93c-1c.tar.gz (is the main one) you might need aic79xx-2.0.8-3.tar.gz.
Make a note of your bios settings b4 u change them and reset them b4 trying windows.
I have a Dell Precision 670 and I was trying to install RedHat Linux 9.0. I had the same problem but it was solved by installing
aic79xx-2.0.10-i386-rh90.img.gz.
solidtoon
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December 12th, 2004 17:00
Out of frustration I changed the BIOS so that SATA-0, SATA-1, SATA-2, SATA-3, PATA-0 and PATA-1 were ON. Initially they were all OFF except SATA-0 and PATA-0. (And it worked..)
Also as recommended on linux.dell.com site, I had the 'SATA Operation' mode to [RAID-Autodetect / ATA].
I downloaded all of the driver sets from support.dell.com for versions of Red Hat. eg. ata_piix-0.93c-1c.tar.gz (is the main one) you might need aic79xx-2.0.8-3.tar.gz.
Make a note of your bios settings b4 u change them and reset them b4 trying windows.
Sri_G_at_RTP
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December 15th, 2004 12:00
tropicos
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April 26th, 2005 16:00
OK but I have the same problem, but I need to install the root partition in a SCSI drive!
I only have SCSI drives in my Dell Precision.
Setup is performed correctly, but at the next reboot linux says error during insmod and then "Kernel Panic"...
I tried with Fedora too but same problem
Any solutions?
ricman
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September 14th, 2005 18:00