Guest adondysh Posted August 5, 2007 Report Share Posted August 5, 2007 I have a problem, installing Power pack 2007.0 on P5KC motherboard. I am using SATA hard disks and DVD_rw drives. During installation, I receive message: no CDROM found. I tried to select Hard disk installation. Receive message no Hard disk found. On the same system I was able to install 2007.1 free. What is the problem? and how to solve? Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 It's probably the kernel in mdv2007 vs mdv2007.1. That board uses the jmicron sata/pata controller which was a real problem for earlier kernels along the lines you are experiencing, i.e. pata opticals and sata hard drives not detected after the kernel loads. It's very difficult to figure out what's in a mandriva kernel since they are heavily patched with backports but I would guess the newer mdv2007.1 kernel has been patched to deal with the jmicron controller whereas the older mdv2007 kernel was not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 Welcome to the board. :) If pmpatrick is correct, this entry in the 2007 Errata may be relevant... By the way, your topic refers to 'spring power pack' and your post refers to 'power pack 2007.0'. :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 This was an issue with pretty much all Linux distros that used grub instead of isolinux at their installation medium- the Jmicron ATA controller couldn't be initialized, and the installation died... Some distros even switched to isolinux in the middle of the road (Feisty beta2). Somewhere around February the Sidux gang found a workaround, which was working great, and now it's adopted by everyone... there should be no such issues with Jmicron anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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