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Travis McGee

2007-06-25, 7:14 pm

Yep, I've searched a bunch and looks like maybe you can't do a clean install
of Ubuntu using a single SATA HD. At least in my case.

I've installed quite a few distros, but have never used a sata HD before. I
have the driver for Win, but I don't want win! (It's a nvidia nForce Gigabit
chipset)

Any ideas? Maybe load GAG and manually set up the partitions? Already tried
all the bios settings and flashed the bios, too.

Is this a common problem for ALL the current distros? Any direction would
help.....

TIA>


Linonut

2007-06-26, 7:13 am

After takin' a swig o' grog, Travis McGee belched out this bit o' wisdom:

> Yep, I've searched a bunch and looks like maybe you can't do a clean install
> of Ubuntu using a single SATA HD. At least in my case.
>
> I've installed quite a few distros, but have never used a sata HD before. I
> have the driver for Win, but I don't want win! (It's a nvidia nForce Gigabit
> chipset)
>
> Any ideas? Maybe load GAG and manually set up the partitions? Already tried
> all the bios settings and flashed the bios, too.
>
> Is this a common problem for ALL the current distros? Any direction would
> help.....


I did a netinstall of Debian amd64 etch on this machine onto a SATA drive
not that long ago. NVidia chipset (sata_nv driver).

--
Tux rox!
bk

2007-06-26, 1:13 pm

Linonut wrote:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Travis McGee belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>
> I did a netinstall of Debian amd64 etch on this machine onto a SATA drive
> not that long ago. NVidia chipset (sata_nv driver).
>


I did the same thing but on an ATI SB600 chipset a few months back. The
Debian CD didn't see the SATA drive so I did some searching. What ended
up working is putting PCI=NOMSI in the boot parameters. You might want
to google that and make sure it is right since I did it at home and I'm
at work now (my memory isn't too bad, but it was a few months ago). I
would think it would also work with Ubuntu since it's Debian based. HTH.
AJackson

2007-06-27, 1:14 am

On Jun 26, 4:29 pm, bk <b...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Linonut wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
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> I did the same thing but on an ATI SB600 chipset a few months back. The
> Debian CD didn't see the SATA drive so I did some searching. What ended
> up working is putting PCI=NOMSI in the boot parameters. You might want
> to google that and make sure it is right since I did it at home and I'm
> at work now (my memory isn't too bad, but it was a few months ago). I
> would think it would also work with Ubuntu since it's Debian based. HTH.



Did you try Debian/Etch or Debian/Sarge when you did this? I is quite
a difference...

ken scharf

2007-06-28, 1:14 am

Linonut wrote:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Travis McGee belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>
> I did a netinstall of Debian amd64 etch on this machine onto a SATA drive
> not that long ago. NVidia chipset (sata_nv driver).
>

my asustek athlon64 socket 939 Mb had no problem booting from the sata
drives. In fact, I have a software raid setup with lvm. works great!
Installed from Etch cd#1 with kde, but used 'net to get packages.
bk

2007-06-28, 1:14 pm

AJackson wrote:
> On Jun 26, 4:29 pm, bk <b...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
>
> Did you try Debian/Etch or Debian/Sarge when you did this? I is quite
> a difference...
>


It was Etch, about a month before the official release.
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