On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 08:33, Hong Liu wrote: > I tried to install Red Hat Linux 9.1 and FC3 to Dell Dimension 8400 > which I purchased recently. Both systems show the same error message > âNo Device Foundâ. The PC has Intel Pentium 4 processor 550 (3.4 GHz) > w/HT technology and 1MB cache, Intel 925XExpress Chipset, 1 GB DDR2 > SDRAM at 533 MHz, 250 GB Serial ATA hard drive (WDC WD 2500JD-75HBB0, > 7200 RPM. That's the 1st time I've seen a WD drive in a DELL box. > Anyone can tell me if this system is supported by FC3. If no, what > are the major issues? SATA hard drive or the Chipset? If yes, what > are the solutions? I believe it _is_ supported, however, it may be due to the kernel. SATA support is only best supported when using the updated 2.6.9 FC3 kernel. (but it should boot/install fine for you to yum update) > By the way, I used the windows XP home edition to partition the hard > drive into 3 partitions: 170 GB as NTFS which is installed as Windows > XP Home Edition; 30 GB as FAT32 and 30 GB as FAT32. I also tried to > boot the Linux in Rescue mode from the CD and used FDISK to look at > the partitions. Unfortunately, the FDISK does not recognize the hard > drive. Again, since it's SATA, that may be where your problem is. Can you DL a minimal version of gentoo 2004.3 (~50MB ISO) and boot from there? It uses 2.6.9 kernel. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 12:35:22 up 3:33, 6 users, load average: 0.22, 0.32, 0.34
