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KsoftFusion Paragoomba Level: 15  Posts: 69/71 EXP: 13389 For next: 2995 Since: 06-19-04 From: I don't know, gimme a map. Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| My friend gave me Mandriva Linux Limited Edition 2005 a while ago, and I tried to install it on my computer. It didn't work. Here's what I posted at Mandriva Expert: " I started a normal graphical install of Limited Edition 2005. I chose the language as "English" and agreed to the agreement. It starts hardware detection, and it shows the following message for about 10 minutes: "Installing driver for hard drive controller ATI Technologies Inc|ATI 4379 Serial ATA Controller" After about 10 minutes, it gives me an error: "insmod'ing module sata_sil failed at / usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm line 324" I clicked OK and got another message: "An error occured-- no valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem" Clicking OK causes an endless loop of this problem. I'm assuming this means that my SATA controller isn't supported, but I'm hoping there's a fix. Here's my computer's configuration: HP Pavilion a1130n AMD Athlon 64 3500 2.2 Ghz 1 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM 250 GB 7200RPM ATA Hard Drive (there is an 8GB unpartitioned space for linux, the rest is Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005) HP Lightscribe DVD - RW Writer DVD-ROM Drive (DVD is in here, it wouldn't work on the other) NOTE: I don't have a floppy drive, so I can't use ANY fixes needing a floppy. I DO have a USB Key drive, so that could be used. Radeon Xpress 200 128MB video card (it's integrated) Realtek AC97 Sound" Posting that at another board, the people said to try other distros, like Fedora Core 4. It has the same problem, where it says 'Loading sata_sil driver...' then says 'Disabling IRQ 10' and gets stuck. I'm starting to believe my funny SATA controller doesn't want to work with Linux. Anyone know of a distro that supports the ATI 4379 Serial ATA Controller? Apparently, this one is stuck together with the motherboard and video card... I should never have bought such a cheap computer with integrated graphics...  I've also tried booting into expert mode, as some have suggested, and it doesn't help. Anyone know of a fix or a distro that works with this? |
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