[arch-general] install problem

[P NIKOLIC]

Right debug output   humm not easy  by the time the system has reached a usefull state it has all gone will change the way X and KDE start up and try capture some from the cousole   shortly ..

Pete  (web mail is total pants)


--- On Thu, 12/1/12, C Anthony Risinger <anthony at xtfx.me> wrote:

From: C Anthony Risinger <anthony at xtfx.me>
Subject: Re: [arch-general] install problem
To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" <arch-general at archlinux.org>
Date: Thursday, 12 January, 2012, 4:37

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Peter Nikolic
<p.nikolic1 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks
>
> Well havin had a big sucsess on the laptop  so i thoight i would at last try
> this box   but  alsa  the install cd boots but is unable to find my sata disk
> now i know the disk is ok else i would not be typing this from suse .
>  hardware info :   AMD Quad Phenome cpu Nvidia  GT220 1 Gb
> Mother board  MSI   ATI chipset SB700 /SB800 sata chip
> 4Gb ram  Hdd 500Gb

paste some debug output for people to work from, eg `dmesg`, `lspci`,
maybe even `parted -l` ... the usuals :-)

are you trying to install to an existing partition (eg. on LVM2 or
something) or wipe the exisint install? IOW, can you really not see
the disk, or ...

... need some output/detail -- i literally have a nearly identical
server (same proc/ram/SB, but i use an ASUS board, and ATI card ...
Nvidia==yuk, and just recently installed a 2TB RAID1) and i've never
had issue.

also, is the disk on an onboard sata port, or an pci-e slot?  is you
BIOS using AHCI or ATA for sata host controller?  you want AHCI unless
you boot Windows XP.

-- 

C Anthony