Im attempting to install Fedora or Mandrivia on a Inspiron 1501 Notebook. The problem I keep having is the install.
Every time I attempt to do the install, Linux cannot find my Hard drive. It keeps asking what disk/ide driver it should use. No matter what I try i always get the error-"An error occured - no valid devices were found on which to create new file system. Please check your hardware for the cause of the problem"
Thats as far as I can go.
I tried to ask Dell's Customer Service what HD driver I need and I get their "Dell does not support Linux" line. Funny, They have servers running Linux...
If you have any ideas that might help me out, I would appreciate it.
Stan
BTW. I have Fedora Core 6/Windowns 2000 running on my "I built it myself" desktop with no problems.
During boot off the Fedora DVD, before entering the installation, do NOT hit enter to install. Type in:
linux acpi=force irqpoll
Then go through the install.
After it copies the image over to the drive it will want to reboot to proceed with the install. When it comes up to the boot loader screen in order to boot into Fedora you will want to edit the boot loader.
The second line of the boot-up sequence you are going to want to add to the end of
acpi=force rhgb quiet pci=nomsi
Then the only problem will be trying to get the wireless nic to work
samste19
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November 24th, 2006 12:00
Im attempting to install Fedora or Mandrivia on a Inspiron 1501 Notebook. The problem I keep having is the install.
Every time I attempt to do the install, Linux cannot find my Hard drive. It keeps asking what disk/ide driver it should use. No matter what I try i always get the error-"An error occured - no valid devices were found on which to create new file system. Please check your hardware for the cause of the problem"
Thats as far as I can go.
I tried to ask Dell's Customer Service what HD driver I need and I get their "Dell does not support Linux" line. Funny, They have servers running Linux...
If you have any ideas that might help me out, I would appreciate it.
Stan
BTW. I have Fedora Core 6/Windowns 2000 running on my "I built it myself" desktop with no problems.
Message Edited by samste19 on 11-24-200608:24 AM
mbeau
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December 24th, 2006 19:00
linux acpi=force irqpoll
Then go through the install.
After it copies the image over to the drive it will want to reboot to proceed with the install. When it comes up to the boot loader screen in order to boot into Fedora you will want to edit the boot loader.
The second line of the boot-up sequence you are going to want to add to the end of
acpi=force rhgb quiet pci=nomsi
Then the only problem will be trying to get the wireless nic to work
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213556