How To Install Fedora Core 3 on Nforce3 Motherboard with SATA???

[drkbg]

i'm trying to install FC3 on SATA drive without success.

My Configuration is Athlon 64 on Asus Nforce3 motherboard (without secondary SATA controller) and with 200GB SATA Drive.

Are there any external drivers I can use?

[cybrjackle]

What is it doing?

Is the drive showing up?

[drkbg]

No drives show up.

[cybrjackle]

On mine, I had to pass the following to the cd for install:

linux noapic nolapic

When I had an ASUS board, I can't remember what I did but it had the same problems as you are having, check all of the BIOS settings for your drives/raid/sata and whatever else there is.

What's the model of ASUS you have?

[drkbg]

Asus K8N is the motherboard.
I tried every BIOS option but there's no options for tuning SATA in BIOS.
And actually I have only one SATA drive :((

[niravkapadia]

i have same problem on DELL optiplex machine with 40GB SATA drive, There is a option in BIOS for "SATA opration" on DELL bios its call combination mode, in description it shows "this mode provides compatibility with some older operating systems". this way during installation process will see you hard drive, after you finish installation kudzu might install SATA drivers.

[jo42]

I have an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard with the nForce chipset based system. I was able to install FC3 on a WD Raptor hooked up to SATA1. That is, the FC3 setup saw the WD disk drive, was able to partition, format and copy all the files over. However, it won't boot. The hard drive just blips and then the system sits there doing nothing.

I ended up installing FC2 and excluding the kernel from yum updates to make FC2 work.

Hopefully the kernel bodgers will fix this and FC4 will have it working nicely...

[cybrjackle]

I have an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard with the nForce chipset based system. I was able to install FC3 on a WD Raptor hooked up to SATA1. That is, the FC3 setup saw the WD disk drive, was able to partition, format and copy all the files over. However, it won't boot. The hard drive just blips and then the system sits there doing nothing.

I ended up installing FC2 and excluding the kernel from yum updates to make FC2 work.

Hopefully the kernel bodgers will fix this and FC4 will have it working nicely...

Same board, mine works perfect on everything i've thrown at it.

[laube]

Hi There...

Right after the First screen of the anaconda installer, when it appears to be detecting my hard drive the installer crash after I tell it to ignore and error. I have the following System and this is a new install on a System already running Windows 2000 Server.

Western Digital 200GB SATA on an Asus K8V SE Deluxe Athlon 64 3200+.

This drive was partitioned using the WD utility into 2 100GB NTFS Partitions.

I also have a WD 60GB currently formated as NTFS that I was hoping to use for Fedora.

[kellerbl]

Same board, mine works perfect on everything i've thrown at it.

I see you have nearly the same system setup that I have. I just burned a DVD image of FC3 and tried to boot/install it, but it seems to hang when loading sata_nv - perhaps it would eventually continue if I waited long enough. Did you need to do anything special to get FC3 installed? I've seen that many have trouble with sata_nv on FC3 and I was wondering if there is something I need to do during installation to get around this problem. The posts here: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3352 seem to imply a kernal build is necessary with a change to sata_nv.c This is a new system for me and I have no Linux installed with which to perform a kernel build.

[ccl2003]

please help me. i have a similar problem with my a64 3000+, msi k8n neo2 platinum, seagate 80gb sata hdd. after completing installation of fc3 the error message says: "kernel panic....attempted to run init". what is the meaning of this? i was able to run fc3 on an ide hdd before with the same mobo and proc but the shift to sata has been giving me problems. please help me i really need to run fc3 on my home system. thanks a lot.

[thosmas]

Hi, I wasn't able to install FC3_64 on my machine w/Asus K8N-E Deluxe motherboard using the normal Serial ATA connector. Switching to the RAID Serial ATA connector fixed the problem.

[cybrjackle]

I see you have nearly the same system setup that I have. I just burned a DVD image of FC3 and tried to boot/install it, but it seems to hang when loading sata_nv - perhaps it would eventually continue if I waited long enough. Did you need to do anything special to get FC3 installed? I've seen that many have trouble with sata_nv on FC3 and I was wondering if there is something I need to do during installation to get around this problem. The posts here: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3352 seem to imply a kernal build is necessary with a change to sata_nv.c This is a new system for me and I have no Linux installed with which to perform a kernel build.


linux noapic nolapic

is the only thing I pass at boot up during the install
have you tried that?

[drkbg]

i've tried this... down't work for me... :(

[rdionne1187]

did ur sata drives come with a boot disk?

[drkbg]

actually not :(

[tashirosgt]

drkbg,

What boot order are you setting for your hard drives?
Also, there is probably an option for enabling or disabling the SATA controller. It might be under "integrated perhiperals" or some similar option. I was able to install FC3 with no problem on an MSI K8N motherboard. It had no IDE hard drives attached.

[drkbg]

drkbg,

What boot order are you setting for your hard drives?
Also, there is probably an option for enabling or disabling the SATA controller. It might be under "integrated perhiperals" or some similar option. I was able to install FC3 with no problem on an MSI K8N motherboard. It had no IDE hard drives attached.

yes but probably you are using either not the nvidia SATA controller (you are using the secondary Sillicon SATA controller on board) or you have enabled IDE emulation for SATA drives in BIOS... Asus K8N does NOT have this two options... so I can't install FC3 :(

[cybrjackle]

yes but probably you are using either not the nvidia SATA controller (you are using the secondary Sillicon SATA controller on board) or you have enabled IDE emulation for SATA drives in BIOS... Asus K8N does NOT have this two options... so I can't install FC3 :(

I have installed FC3 on this same mobo b4 I blew it up ;-) so you are missing something. Are there any BIOS updates that you are missing?

amd64 mobo's are updating BIOS faster than I have ever seen, so take that into consideration that you might be missing an important update :eek:

[drkbg]

I have installed FC3 on this same mobo b4 I blew it up ;-) so you are missing something. Are there any BIOS updates that you are missing?

amd64 mobo's are updating BIOS faster than I have ever seen, so take that into consideration that you might be missing an important update :eek:

i have the last BIOS update from Asus...

are you sure you have not installed on K8N Deluxe?

[cybrjackle]

i have the last BIOS update from Asus...

are you sure you have not installed on K8N Deluxe?

I do have the MSI now, I had the same Asus until I OC'D it and blew the agp slot, I just got the board back via RMA last week and not sure what i'm going to do with it yet. Before that, I had fc3 installed on it.

[drkbg]

no no bootdisk.... :(

actually if anyone knows how to build driverdisk with the correct drivers could post here howto

[kellerbl]

linux noapic nolapic

is the only thing I pass at boot up during the install
have you tried that?

The hang I was having went away when I finally built a 2.6.10 kernel. That seemed to work for me. The hardware browser allowed me to see both IDE drives and both SATA drives and their partitions. The SATA drives appeared as devices hdc and hdd (I think). I say this because I couldn't leave well enough alone. In trying to build and install drivers for my wireless PCI card (madwifi) and the latest nVidia driver for my 6800GT card, I now have wireless and nVidia working, but my SATA drives don't seem to be working the same. The kernek is 2.6.10-ac8. I see the dmesg log show initially sata 1 primary added then removed, then sata 2 is added and removed, then they appear under scsi0 as sda and scsi1 ad sdb. But the hardware browser doesn't show these drives and "parted sda print" claims it cannot stat the sda (or sdb) device. I seem to make two steps forward and one back.

I knew the SATA drives would be supported in the SCSI driver, so I tried to ensure I included the appropriate support when I configured the kernel before building it, but perhaps I excluded something I shouldn't have. Oddly enough, I thought I excluded pcmcia support completely, but I see it loaded during boot, so I don't know how much I trust the make menuconfig process.

[drkbg]

kellerbl,

The idea of this post is to understand how to install fedora core 3 on new system with nvidia nForce 250 chipset and SATA drives.

[lauterm]

please help me. i have a similar problem with my a64 3000+, msi k8n neo2 platinum, seagate 80gb sata hdd. after completing installation of fc3 the error message says: "kernel panic....attempted to run init". what is the meaning of this? i was able to run fc3 on an ide hdd before with the same mobo and proc but the shift to sata has been giving me problems. please help me i really need to run fc3 on my home system. thanks a lot.


see http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showpost.php?p=134684&postcount=15

[kellerbl]

kellerbl,

The idea of this post is to understand how to install fedora core 3 on new system with nvidia nForce 250 chipset and SATA drives.

Sorry drkbg, I built this system over the holidays and I am still trying to get FC3 to work. I did momentarily get the SATA drives to appear to work, but that was only during one of the last 6 kernel build I've done in trying to get the SATA, wireless and nVidia drivers all to work at the same time. My initial problem was that I could not get past the sata_nv hang when trying to install. I eventually had to disable my sata drives in BIOS, install on IDE drives, install a new kernel source and build it for 2.6.10 before I could turn the SATA back on in BIOS just to have the boot stop hanging on me. I agree that my current problem is beyond the original issue of installing, but I feel like I am still installing and haven't stopped for 3 weeks. My MB uses nVidia nForce3 250 Ultra chipset, which seemed close enough.

[kellerbl]

Well, my lack of experience in linux is showing through. I am getting the SATA drives and their partitions to be seen by fdisk and parted (once I realized I had to specify /dev/sda instead of just sda).

I don't know why the hardware browser (hwbrowser) shows only the IDE drives though. Perhaps it has never shown other types of drives?