[TriLUG] RHEWS4 and a Dell 9100......

[Paul G. Szabady]

Greetings,

You're exactly correct.  It's an issue with reading the SATA drives.  I
had the same problem about 6 months ago and was able to work around it by
passing the option "irqpoll" OR maybe "acpi=off irqpoll" to the installer
at boot.

Good Luck!

-- 
Paul
@ Thy Service

>  Hello all,
>
> I have the following machine:
> *Dell Dimension 9100, P4 processor 630 w/ HT technology, 3GHz
> *2GB Dual channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHZ 4DIMMS
> * 128 MB PCI Express x16(DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radon X300 SE HyperMemory
> *USB 2-button Mouse, keyboard
> *500GB Serial ATA II Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/ DataBurst Cache
> *Dual CD/DVD+/-RW w/ double layer write capable.
>
> I am trying to create a Dual boot machine (Windows XP Pro on the other
> side) installing RedHat  Enterprise WS 4 on the other side. When I go to
> do the install, I get the following message:
>
> "No hard drives have been found. You probably need to manually choose
> device drivers for the installation to succeed. Would you like to select
> drivers now?"
>
> Now what do I do here?,  how do I get around this driver issue? I know
> the darn thing works on the windows side. I reading and based on what
> I've see so far, its not clear as to it being a hard drive problem or a
> contorller problem, thxs-
>
> *******
>
> Did a little more reading. I think the problem is that Red Hat Linux and
> to that does not detect the SATA hard drives which Dell Dimension ships
> with the 9100. I 'm thinking that I need to add a driver for the Linx
> version (RHEWS4 in this case)  to detect the hard drives but I'm not
> completely sure about this. Still might be the controller or the chip
> set on the motherboard-
>
> *****************
>
> Getting warmer, found this whilst I was searching:
>
> http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_linux&message.id=5966
> <http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_linux&message.id=5966>
>
> But exactly what in the BIOS do I need to adjust?
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