Hi, I have the same problem with my new computer. It has the Via 8237 chipset, too. Here's what I found out so far: The kernel that came with Fedora Core 1 (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) doesn't support the controller at all. Kernel 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl from Fedora updates supports the controller and reads the drive just fine. It needs a kernel module for that, though, so you can't boot from an SATA disk. Kernel 2.6.1-1.47 (from Fedora development, iirc) supports the controller, but when it tries to read my hdd, it just spits out error messages until I reboot. It has got the driver built in (not as a module), but it's unusable for me. I'll investigate that problem some more when I find some time and post a bug report here or on bugzilla. Bye, Levin On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:47:26 -0500 "Mind Less" <mindl_ess@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm trying to install Fedora Core 1 onto my computer, whjich happends to > have only SATA hard drives. Booting from CD-ROM wont do anything has it > cant locate the controler for some reason... > > Does any1 have a clue on how to get this to work? i wouldnt care about > booting from floppy, or burning a new cd image with the updates kernel > files or whatever... ( i'm kinda new to linux so i'm just giving ideas > here...) > > Does the updates kernels will work? > > Charles Dorval > Student Network administrator, > College de L'Estrie
