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@xxxxxxx> wrote: From: C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxx> Subject: Re: install problem To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thursday, 12 January, 2012, 4:37 On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Peter Nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
