Hello,
I recently got the Ubuntu 9.10 cd desktop-i386 (i ordered it from canonical) and i tried to install it , but when i came to step 4 (to pratition the HDD) it doesent recognize my hard drive (3 partitions : 15 gb ext4, 37gb ntfs , 25 gb ntfs).I run Windos XP on 37 gb partition withot problems. I reserved that ext4 for karmic. Also i booted up the live cd to try smth in the terminal...i tried with sudo apt-get -y remove dmraid but still doesnt work.Also when i looked into Places menu the HDD partitions were not there.Also i dont know why but if i dont select ACPI=OFF, ofter booting up desktop freezes after 10 sec...when i select ACPI=OFF it runs great. And when i select ACPI=OFF and NOLAPIC from the F6 boot menu , ubuntu detects my hard drive in places menu and instalation menu,but after 15-20 sec the screen freezes and i must restart .I dont think it's the cd because when i teseted the live cd at my friends computer it detects their HDD, even without NOLAPIC ! I dont know what to do and i really need Ubunt. Do i need to upgrade my BIOS or what ? PLS HELP !

Hello and welcome to LinuxQuestions,

Can you please specify some more information regarding your hardware? What type of Harddisk is it? Make, model, IDE, SATA, ...? Also what chipset do you use? Is it a computer you bought like that or build yourself?

The more info you can provide in regards to the hardware in use, the more specific any answers here will be.

Kind regards,

Eric

Post out put of
#sudo lspci-v

#sudo lshw -sanitize

#sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda

sdb
sdc

Upgrade bios definitely
For SATA use ahci

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BIOS Type: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
BIOS ID: 01/17/2005-nForce-6A61CFK9C-00
BIOS Date: 20050117
BIOS Vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Version: 6.00 PG
BIOS Size: 524288
Chipset: Athlon 1100 rev 0
SuperIO: ITE 8712F rev 7 at port 002E
OEM Sign-on: WinFast NF3250 Series 4BMW1P19 011705
Base Product: nForce

can someone help me find upgrade for this kind of bios ,cuz i couldn't find enywhere.Tried with Bios agent plus but nothing

I updated my bios and it worked thx for your help !