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Harddrive Not Detected During Installation

boot strap load
02-07-2006, 05:42 PM
When I try installing FC3 on my computer it works until it says that it can't detect my hardrive. It tells me to select a device and when I do and go on to partitioning the hardrive it would say that it could not detect the hardrive and to check my hardware.To be more precise,the error message is this "An error has occured-no valid devices were found on which to create new file systems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem" .
I have intel915 64 bit motherboard,SATA 80gb harddrive,2.8Ghz processor,512MB RAM.I left 8GB space for linux.In the rest space i'm currently running window xp service pack 2 and it does run properly.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Nodsu
02-08-2006, 05:18 AM
The FC3 install kernel doesn't support your SATA controller. If you insist on using FC3 then you may be able to create some driver floppy or an install image with a newer kernel.. I'd recommend FC4 or some other newer distro instead.

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boot strap load
02-08-2006, 01:52 PM
hey i tried to install suse 9.3,ubuntu.But the same problem persists there too..
ok,i'd try FC4 also as u say..

neways,thanks for ur concern.

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