No Hard drives has been found

[Rick Stevens]

Emanuel Mauritzson wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>> Emanuel Mauritzson wrote:
>>
>>> Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>>> Emanuel Mauritzson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have a problem when i trying to install Red Hat.
>>>>>
>>>>> This message occur when i trying to install
>>>>>
>>>>> "No hard drives have been  found you probably need to manually 
>>>>> choose drivers for the installation to succed"
>>>>> ---------------------
>>>>> And after that
>>>>> ------------------------
>>>>> No device drivers has been loaded for your system would you like to 
>>>>> load any now
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>>>>
>>>>> then i can choose a lot of devices but to me it only looks like 
>>>>> networkcards devices
>>>>> so when i push done and enter the X graph mode. I can fill out 
>>>>> Language, Keybord and mouse settings then the program reboot the 
>>>>> computer and gives the message no hard disc is found.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Could somebody help me..Know my english not so good..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Which version of Red Hat?  If you use SATA hard drives, Red Hat never
>>>> supported them without an external driver disk.  The Fedora Core
>>>> releases do support many SATA drives.
>>>>
>>>> Can you give us details about your system?  We need to know the
>>>> motherboard make and model, CPU type and amount of memory.  If you use
>>>> SCSI or SATA drives, we need to know what type of controller you are
>>>> trying to use.
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>>> Version of Redhat 9.0
>>>
>>> Moterboard Inteld925xcv 925x moterboard blkd925xcvlk
>>> CPU Intel pentium 4 540 3.2 1mb l2 chache 800mhz fsb lga 775
>>> Memory Samsung 521 ddr2 pc400 (x2)
>>> harddrive seagate barracuda 80gb 8mb chache serial ata hd (x2)
>>
>>
>>
>> Ok.  If I read that right:
>>
>> Operating System:    Red Hat Linux 9
>> Motherboard:        Intel D925XCV
>> CPU:            Intel Pentium 4
>> Memory            1GB (2 x 512MB DDR2 PC400 modules)
>> Hard Drive:        Seagate Barracuda SATA 80GB
>>
>>> Trying to do the install in anaconda, if that what you meen with 
>>> "controller" im using...
>>
>>
>>
>> Anaconda is the Red Hat Linux installer program.  My question was aimed
>> at what disk drive controller was being used.  By what you said above, 
>> I can see that you're using the SATA controller on the motherboard.
>>
>> Red Hat Linux 9 doesn't support that SATA controller and Intel doesn't
>> provide any drivers that will support it under Linux.  You could put in
>> a regular IDE drive and install to it, but I don't think that's what you
>> really want to do.
>>
>> If you want to use the SATA hard drive, you will need to upgrade to
>> Fedora Core 2 or Fedora Core 3, which does have support for that SATA
>> controller.  If you use Fedora Core 3, you'll be absolutely current.
>>
>> You should be aware that Red Hat Linux 9 reached end-of-life in April of
>> 2004, meaning that Red Hat doesn't support it any longer.  Updates are
>> available from the Fedora Legacy project, but it's really quite an old
>> operating system now.
>>
>> Fedora Core 3 (FC3) is the latest free version of Linux that's available
>> which has any affiliation with Red Hat (Red Hat does a lot of the
>> development of FC3, but it is NOT a Red Hat product).
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> 
> Thanks for the help, Trying now to install Fedora Core 3 but it says no 
> cd-rom disk avalible when im in in the installations phase after i 
> choose language and keyboard settings, i´m using the dvd,img is it not 
> possible to boot from dvd it must be cd-rom? because it reads from the 
> DVD in the beginning.

I've never used the DVD installation mode before.  I suspect that
there's no symbolic link between /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom in your
configuration.  You might check bugzilla to see if a similar case
to yours exists and what the fix is.
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