SuSE 10 - problems intalling SATA hd
 

hi,

i have built a system with the following parts;

amd 64 X2 4400+
giga-byte K8N ULTRA-SLI
kingston 2 gb ddr400
samsung 80gb SATA II (x4)

now it seems i can not complete SuSE's installation on this system.

everytime i install the OS SuSE 10, it comes to a point where the system needs to reboot; when it comes back on it shows an error that says that Boot loader can not be found.

i have understood that it is a problem with the configuration of those sata drives or their chipset and SuSE.

i would very much appreciate your assistance as i have run out of ideas to install it.

in fact, i have even attempeted to install (and i am sorry ~ install windows) but it still does not work - again gives an error: no hd found.

thanks in advance for your assistance,

nicolas

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Did I interpret "80g SATA II (x4)" correctly that you have 4 drives?
I know about cases where the device.map points grub to the wrong HDD. You could try to boot a Live Distro or the rescue system and change the order in /boot/grub/device.map.

There may also be a BIOS setting that confuses grub. Do you have any RAID modes enabled?

hi abisko00,

there are 4 hd; all sataII.
i agree with you that it is a problem for the system to identify which hd to boot up.
i have no raid configuration done on the nforce chipset.

but i can not work out how to solve it.

the boot loader on the motherboard is nvidia boot agent 201.0462.


thanks,

nicolas

giving up
 

i have looked around, and there are folks that have managed install suse 9.3 on this motherboard.

but i have not found a line of how to do it.

thus i will by an ide hd and for the OS and SATAII for storage until better driver(modules) become available.

nicolas

i think i figure the problem
 

in the bios, we can set the boot up order for the hd.
thus, i could set a sata hd to be the first.
it is trick because the hd count starts in ZERO and Suse's in 1.

but it is doable.