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SATA harddrive not recognized by UBUNTU 7.04

Asked by old jim

I have this computer system:-

ASUS M2N-MX SE motherboard

Kingston DDR2-667 1GB memory

Western Cavier SE 80GB SATA 11 HD

ASUS Lightscribe SATA DVD-RW

Intel Celeron CPU 430 @ 1.80GHz

No operating system is installed.

I have run the live UBUNTU 7.04 CD

successfully, during the loading

and running of which there is much

hard drive activity as indicated by

the hard drive light. Whether this

is real HD activity or some sort of

phantom behavour could be questioned.

When I begin the full install process

I cannot proceed at the partition

window. I am only offered manual

partition but there does not seem to

be anything to partition. It seems to

be impossible to proceed any further.

It seems to me that the installer is

not recognizing the SATA HD. Could it

be that an additional driver file is

needed?

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Francesco Conti (madmoose) said : 		#1

You can try to install with Ubuntu Alternate CD.
It usually has more and unusual drivers you can't find on the desktop cd

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n3m3sis (nem2killu2) said : 		#2

The above link is a Question #12661 in Ubuntu, not a reported bug as such allthough I believe it is one, as anything that works on the live cd/dvd should works when installed.

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old jim (ros-jim-waituna) said : 		#3

Thank you.
I do not know how to obtain a copy of the
Ubuntu Alternate CD.
A CD sized internet download is not possible here, although
a few megabytes is no trouble to download.

I note that the installer does offer an opportunity to
install with a separate driver disk.
I wonder whether, if I could obtain suitable driver files,
I could burn them to a disk to use in that manner.

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Saabir (shsaifee) said : 		#4

Steps to be taken in order for you to install on a SATA Hard Drive:

1. Run your LiveCD
2. Select F6 on the option screen
3. At the end of the command line give a space and then type "pci=nommconf" without the quotes and then start the install

It will install.

Eureka!!!

Saabir.

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old jim (ros-jim-waituna) said : 		#5

Thank you to all for suggestions so far.
Sadly I still have not succeeded with an install. The blocking point is HD partitioning.

The suggestion from Saabir to use the command "pci=nommconf" did seem to speed up the live disk loading
but made no difference when the HD install arrived at the partition window.

I am still searching for ideas.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#6

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