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Title: SME 7.3 SATA Install problem
Post by: blackbird098 on February 07, 2008, 11:10:45 PM

I need help getting SME 7.3 installed on a Abit AN-52 with the Nforce 520 chipset with 2 Western Digital WD25000 SATA hard disks. I've done searches here in the forum but haven't found anything that covers the exact problem I'm having. It is possible/likely I missed something ...Here's what I've done so far based some of things I've found in the forum....in the BIOS there's no way to turn off ACPI, so I tried doing an install using 'sme acpi=off' no luck there. I've set the jumpers to 150/mbps transfer rate no luck there either. In both cases the CD boots up fine but then gets to a point and says no drives were found, it allows me to manually select a driver so I picked the Nvidia sata driver and the generic sata figuring one should work but no luck. The error I get in all cases is " No valid devices were found on which to create new file systems". If anyone has more suggestions of what I can do to get this going I'm all ears.

Title: Re: SME 7.3 SATA Install problem
Post by: pfloor on February 08, 2008, 01:29:00 AM

Do you have the RAID turned off in the bios?

If not, try turning it off and let SME create a software raid array for you.

Title: Re: SME 7.3 SATA Install problem
Post by: blackbird098 on February 08, 2008, 01:58:28 AM

Yes RAID is disabled from the BIOS...I also tried with RAID enable but error is the same in both cases.

Title: Re: SME 7.3 SATA Install problem
Post by: chris burnat on February 08, 2008, 11:15:09 AM

If it does not work out of the box, may I suggest you bring this issue to the attention of the developpers by making a Bug Report at Bugzilla.  OK, it may take a little of your time, but in the end you will know what  the problem is and the Distro will be improved  if this is a bug and if it can be fixed.
Thanks.

Title: Re: SME 7.3 SATA Install problem
Post by: blackbird098 on February 09, 2008, 08:48:51 AM

I will submit a bug report but as an aside I was able to get Ubuntu Desktop 64-bit to install and work with one catch...I had to edit the boot loader and add acpi=off before it would come back up after a reboot.

Is there anyone out there that's successfully been able to get SME 7.3 on clean SATA disks with the nForce chipset?

Title: Re: SME 7.3 SATA Install problem
Post by: william_syd on February 09, 2008, 09:07:54 AM

Quote from: blackbird098 on February 09, 2008, 08:48:51 AM

Ubuntu Desktop 64-bit to install

I would suggest you try to install 32Bit Centos 4.6 and note your results in your bug report.

Title: Re: SME 7.3 SATA Install problem
Post by: chris burnat on February 09, 2008, 09:09:38 AM

Check: http://smolt.contribs.org/
It may be there.