White Box Linux can't find Hard Drive

RedFox937 · 06-27-2006, 10:58 PM

I am using a Western Digital SATA hard drive and I want to dual-boot Windows XP and White Box, XP for general use and White Box for a server. I installed Windows without any problem, but when I tried to install Linux, it cannot find my hard drive. I have tried manually choosing a SATA driver for the SiS chipset(the same one as my motherboard) but it still can't find it when I try to partition and format the HDD.

x86processor · 06-28-2006, 02:57 PM

Are you booting with a 2.6 Linux kernel?

RedFox937 · 06-28-2006, 03:13 PM

No, it is kernel 2.11. How can I install with 2.6? Do I need to change files on the install disc?

tamoneya · 06-28-2006, 05:05 PM

you should try to find the most recent version. look for it on distrowatch

RedFox937 · 06-28-2006, 07:44 PM

The most recent version of White Box only runs on 2.11, so does anyone know of a different distro that I could use for a server with the 2.6 kernel and AMD64 support? Also, it would help if it had a GUI since I am very much a newbie with Linux and cannot run in a command line yet.

tamoneya · 06-28-2006, 09:28 PM

pretty much any distro will get you that. I would suggest something like ubuntu or if you would like a bit more of a challange gentoo. Both are on distrowatch.

RedFox937 · 06-29-2006, 11:37 AM

Thank you for your help. I found the distro called slamd64 which is like Slackware so I decided I would try that since I am somewhat familiar with Slack. I may try Gentoo in the future but I want to use the command line more before I work with that.