Hi

I want to install Redhat Linux on Dell XPS M1530 laptop. I have installed Windows XP on it. And I have left one partition for Linux.But unable to install it.After booting from Linux CD its showing that "No Device Found". I think its unable to detect the hard disk. But not sure what exactly the problem is.
My Laptop Configuration is:
Intel(R)Core(TM)2 Duo Processor T7250
Hard Disk is SATA Hard Drive.

Can some one please suggest me how to proceed.

There is lots of dual-boot information in these forums. I would search for it, and make sure your Windows partition is backed up and, even better, imaged with something like Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image.

You probably cannot find a disk, because that partition is not yet prepared. If this is a live CD, you have access to a command line and will have to run fdisk to create a new partition.

Here's one link with some useful info in it:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...t3-create.html

If you don't have a live CD, use the latest version of Knoppix. I keep a couple of CDs around just for diagnostic purposes.

Do you have a paid subscription to RH? If so, use it

I think it is not finding the drive ---that has nothing to do with the partitioning.

Ranjan;
Waht version of RedHat? RHEL4, for example, does not support SATA without some extra steps.

To install Red Hat on SATA, you have to toggle the legacy settings for the disks in the BIOS settings.
Do this and you will be able to install the linux. I had same problems installing the RHEL4 in dell desktop in office.

But will a decent answer be forthcoming? One of the reasons I fought putting the rest of our lab on Red Hat, other than one application vendor tying its support to it, is I get better support from these forums and information on the internet than I do from Red Hat.

Getting them to fix something is like dental surgery without pain killer. Dealing with Canonical on the other hand is a pleasant experience. They'll even help you with something slightly outside their support agreements, like pptp.

What version of RHEL are you running? A lot of sata hardware (chipsets) was not fully supported until 5.1.

We installed RHEL 4 on brand new IBM rack mounts with SATA last October and never toggled the BIOS. The only thing we had to do is the ethernet controller was implemented in a chip set so new that there were no drivers for it on the RH media we had received, so we had to burn CDs off Red Hat's site.

The thread starter wants to put RHEL on dell that I used dell in the office and could solve the problem by toggling the legacy settings. And the problem seems similar to the one I faced.