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I went and bought a new Intel MB (DQ965GF) with 4 SATA drives.

I downloaded the FC6 ISO and burned a DVD.

Totally clean install, all new everything.

Select Laug/KB US..

Next screen says, "Installation Method" "What type of media contains the
package to be install.." "Local CDROM/HD/HFS img/FTP/HTTP".

This is an odd one. Never seen this one. why if your installing from a
ISO image on DVD would it ask that?? If it just mounted the temp image
from the DVD, where else would the packages be??

I select "Local CDROM".

Next screen says, "No Driver found" "Unable to find any devices for the
type needed for this installation type" "Would you like to manually set
your driver or use a drivers disk?"

Why does it need a driver? And for what? Is this because all four of my
hard drives are SATA drives? Is it asking for a RAID/SATA driver?

All 4 SATA drives show up in the BIOS alright.

Any suggestions on how to get past this?

-Bill

Kill Bill wrote:
> I went and bought a new Intel MB (DQ965GF) with 4 SATA drives.
>
> I downloaded the FC6 ISO and burned a DVD.
>
> Totally clean install, all new everything.
>
> Select Laug/KB US..
>
> Next screen says, "Installation Method" "What type of media contains the
> package to be install.." "Local CDROM/HD/HFS img/FTP/HTTP".
>
> This is an odd one. Never seen this one. why if your installing from a
> ISO image on DVD would it ask that?? If it just mounted the temp image
> from the DVD, where else would the packages be??
>
> I select "Local CDROM".
>
> Next screen says, "No Driver found" "Unable to find any devices for the
> type needed for this installation type" "Would you like to manually set
> your driver or use a drivers disk?"
>
> Why does it need a driver? And for what? Is this because all four of my
> hard drives are SATA drives? Is it asking for a RAID/SATA driver?
>
> All 4 SATA drives show up in the BIOS alright.
>
> Any suggestions on how to get past this?

Put the DVD in a working machine and see what is on it. It is embarrassingly
common even for people who have been doing it for years to burn the iso itself
instead of files.

Kill Bill wrote:
> I went and bought a new Intel MB (DQ965GF) with 4 SATA drives.
> I downloaded the FC6 ISO and burned a DVD.
> Totally clean install, all new everything.
> Select Laug/KB US..
> Next screen says, "Installation Method" "What type of media contains the
> package to be install.." "Local CDROM/HD/HFS img/FTP/HTTP".
> This is an odd one. Never seen this one. why if your installing from a
> ISO image on DVD would it ask that?? If it just mounted the temp image
> from the DVD, where else would the packages be??
> I select "Local CDROM".
> Next screen says, "No Driver found" "Unable to find any devices for the
> type needed for this installation type" "Would you like to manually set
> your driver or use a drivers disk?"
> Why does it need a driver? And for what? Is this because all four of my
> hard drives are SATA drives? Is it asking for a RAID/SATA driver?

> All 4 SATA drives show up in the BIOS alright.

> Any suggestions on how to get past this?

Ignore my other. That was totally dumb. Obviously you are passed the stage of
having the files.

First, make sure you did the media check. I have RH9 pass the media check and
still not install so that is no guarantee.

Second. let me say I could never install RH9 making it the worst and have had
three problems with FC6 installs making it the second worst while all the rest
have been clean and trouble free. I finally did get FC6 installed by starting
over rather than upgrading from FC5 and restoring everything as backups. I
should have stuck with 4.

Third if all else fails try a new file download and burning again and retrying.
That seemed to help with RH9 switching back and forth between two burns but in
the end failed so you might want to skip this possibility.

Fourth, FC4 was an absolutely clean and trouble free install and if all else
fails I suggest going back to that until FC7 comes along. I did not try FC5 so
cannot comment on it.

Myself I went from RH5.x through RH8 and jumped to FC4 and now FC6 and regret
moving forward to FC6. I did the RH installs on three machines of widely
differing origins so was not riding a string of luck from one source.

Also one presumes you have plain vanilla hardware which the mention of the MB
satisfies but is there anything exotic involved? Not that I can comment on the
exotic as I only buy when prices have settled because things are plain vanilla.
Exotic means you were first in line to buy so the software folks have caught up
with its quirks.

And as a last desperate suggestion try unplugging one or more of the SATAs and
try again or download the latest Enterprise version and see if that can handle
them all. You do not have an expected civilian configuration.

Kill Bill wrote:
> I went and bought a new Intel MB (DQ965GF) with 4 SATA drives.

And a PATA CD/DVD? In that case, you must use the "all-generic-ide"
kernel parameter: when you see the first "boot:" prompt, type "linux
all-generic-ide" and hit return.

--
Markku Kolkka
markku.kolkka@iki.fi

Matt Giwer wrote:

> Ignore my other. That was totally dumb. Obviously you are passed the
> stage of having the files.

I was thinking how can this be.. It gets far into the install..


> First, make sure you did the media check. I have RH9 pass the media
> check and still not install so that is no guarantee.

Will do.

> Second. let me say I could never install RH9 making it the worst and
> have had three problems with FC6 installs making it the second worst
> while all the rest have been clean and trouble free. I finally did get
> FC6 installed by starting over rather than upgrading from FC5 and
> restoring everything as backups. I should have stuck with 4.

I've taken note here.

> Third if all else fails try a new file download and burning again
> and retrying. That seemed to help with RH9 switching back and forth
> between two burns but in the end failed so you might want to skip this
> possibility.

Thinking about a Ubuntu install now.

> Fourth, FC4 was an absolutely clean and trouble free install and if
> all else fails I suggest going back to that until FC7 comes along. I did
> not try FC5 so cannot comment on it.

Will do. I'll get the download going on that.

> Also one presumes you have plain vanilla hardware which the mention
> of the MB satisfies but is there anything exotic involved? Not that I
> can comment on the exotic as I only buy when prices have settled because
> things are plain vanilla. Exotic means you were first in line to buy so
> the software folks have caught up with its quirks.

yeah.. It's plain. The only thing that I can possibly think of is the 4
Hard Drives which are all SATA plugged into the MB.

There's 2 DVD drives (master/slave) on the IDE ribbon.

A few websites claim this MB is Linux friendly. Did some search on
Goggle for that.

> And as a last desperate suggestion try unplugging one or more of the
> SATAs and try again or download the latest Enterprise version and see if
> that can handle them all. You do not have an expected civilian
> configuration.

Ok.. I was also thinking that I was going to unplug all the SATA drive,
and plug one PATA drive in instead and try that. The only thing that I
can think of is there's some kind of RAID needed for the install. I
just want the 4 SATA drives as JBODs with one being the root OS on it.

Thanks

-Bill

Markku Kolkka wrote:
> Kill Bill wrote:
>> I went and bought a new Intel MB (DQ965GF) with 4 SATA drives.
>
> And a PATA CD/DVD? In that case, you must use the "all-generic-ide"
> kernel parameter: when you see the first "boot:" prompt, type "linux
> all-generic-ide" and hit return.

Really? I'll try that. Thanks!

-Bill

Kill Bill wrote:

> Markku Kolkka wrote:
>> Kill Bill wrote:
>>> I went and bought a new Intel MB (DQ965GF) with 4 SATA drives.
>>
>> And a PATA CD/DVD? In that case, you must use the "all-generic-ide"
>> kernel parameter: when you see the first "boot:" prompt, type "linux
>> all-generic-ide" and hit return.
>
> Really? I'll try that. Thanks!
>
> -Bill

Yep, worked great on my laptop. A big THANKS to Markku Kolkka

--
Dancin in the ruins tonight
Tayo'y Mga Pinoy

Baho Utot wrote:
> Kill Bill wrote:
>
>> Markku Kolkka wrote:
>>> Kill Bill wrote:
>>>> I went and bought a new Intel MB (DQ965GF) with 4 SATA drives.
>>> And a PATA CD/DVD? In that case, you must use the "all-generic-ide"
>>> kernel parameter: when you see the first "boot:" prompt, type "linux
>>> all-generic-ide" and hit return.
>> Really? I'll try that. Thanks!
>>
>> -Bill
>
> Yep, worked great on my laptop. A big THANKS to Markku Kolkka

Bang!! Just tried it and it worked!! Wowzers.. Good call Markku Kolkka!

Instead of asking me for a driver, it went right to the media test
screen, in which I did, just to be safe.

Afterwards, I went thought the install, same as normal, choose my set up!

Only hiccup. After the install, it choose a high res that my monitor
didn't support. The screen kept flickering, but I was able to set it
back down to 800x600.

Thanks..

-bill

type in "linux all-generic-ide"
use "linux acpi=off all-generic-ide" if you got acpi problem too
damn Intel DG965GF, used 2 hours to find out this command

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> type in "linux all-generic-ide"
> use "linux acpi=off all-generic-ide" if you got acpi problem too
> damn Intel DG965GF, used 2 hours to find out this command
>

Hey,

Jak is right, every body is having problem installing Linux. So much for
the Robust OS's bs!