redhat enterprise linux 4 AS installtion problem
 

i am having problems installing RHEL 4 AS on my system. i am getting a message "no hard drives have been found ...." and i'm getting stuck at the partitioning stage itself... my system is an AMD 64 bit, 120 GB sata harddrive, MSI motherboard... i guess it has something to do with harddrive being SATA, but i am not able to find a solution for this. i am unable to find a proper driver disk nor am i able to understand which driver to select from the list given during installtion. i tried a couple of them but i got the message " no drives have been found to install the filesystem ...." and the system rebooted. someone pls help me, as i am really out of options

thanks a million !!!

I had exactly the same problem with Slackware 10.0
Most probably the boot kernel doesn't support your sata controller or sata disks at all.
I have no experience with RHEL but with slackware you have to choose among many different kernels before the actual setup starts.
If you have a choice list all the available kernels of the boot CD and choose one that supports sata disks.
Alternatively you can install on an old ATA disk, then compile a new kernel with sata support directly into the kernel (NOT as a module) and then migrate the system to the sata disk (I have no idea how this happens :)). You could even try another distro!

Sata
 

Hi,
just find the appropriate driver for that sata ie sata controller driver and install it at first screen the option to install the drivers is dd and enter.
thanks and regards
pansarevaibhav