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

www.brainpowered.net

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

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

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.