azusbear
May 15th, 2011, 08:34 PM
Hello Everyone,
I have an odd problem where Installing ubuntu 11.04 cannot find my SATA connected drives. I don't ever have problems installing any types of windows but, I cannot figure it our for Ubuntu. And I burnt a copy of gparted live and it had no problems finding the drives to reformat them.
I have tried 32 and 64 bit versions of Ubuntu both on pendrives and burnt cd's
The pendrives will get me into Ubuntu live but will not show my hard drive (WD3200AAJS) or my cdrom drive even when I run the boot info script it will only find the USB pendrive.
If I run Ubuntu from the CD I can get to the menu to choose to run the live version or install it will give me the error that it cannot find a live file system.
I know my CD's and pendrives are good since they all work on my other computers
fine. I have tried formatting the drives to every format I can think of and I get the same result.
I have a Asus a8v-x motherboard with the latest bios ver. 0703
and it gives a few options for the serial ATA IDE controller SATA, RAID, and AHCI along with SATA OptionROM Execute to (enable or disable). I have tried setting them in every combination I can think of to no avail.
I am not trying to install a dual boot system with windows and Ubuntu. I am just trying to do a clean install of Ubuntu.
One odd thing is I can usb a SATA to USB connector I have and a pendrive so, that both my harddrive and pendrives are connected to my USB ports and install Ubuntu just fine but, If connect the harddrive back to motherboard with SATA I will get the GNU Grub menu with the recovery and memory test options and cannot get past that.
I guess since it cannot find the correct path again.
Any information anyone can give me I will be grateful for and if you know what my SATA bios settings should be for the hard drive that would be great since I can only test with different combinations to come up with some better results.
I have an odd problem where Installing ubuntu 11.04 cannot find my SATA connected drives. I don't ever have problems installing any types of windows but, I cannot figure it our for Ubuntu. And I burnt a copy of gparted live and it had no problems finding the drives to reformat them.
I have tried 32 and 64 bit versions of Ubuntu both on pendrives and burnt cd's
The pendrives will get me into Ubuntu live but will not show my hard drive (WD3200AAJS) or my cdrom drive even when I run the boot info script it will only find the USB pendrive.
If I run Ubuntu from the CD I can get to the menu to choose to run the live version or install it will give me the error that it cannot find a live file system.
I know my CD's and pendrives are good since they all work on my other computers
fine. I have tried formatting the drives to every format I can think of and I get the same result.
I have a Asus a8v-x motherboard with the latest bios ver. 0703
and it gives a few options for the serial ATA IDE controller SATA, RAID, and AHCI along with SATA OptionROM Execute to (enable or disable). I have tried setting them in every combination I can think of to no avail.
I am not trying to install a dual boot system with windows and Ubuntu. I am just trying to do a clean install of Ubuntu.
One odd thing is I can usb a SATA to USB connector I have and a pendrive so, that both my harddrive and pendrives are connected to my USB ports and install Ubuntu just fine but, If connect the harddrive back to motherboard with SATA I will get the GNU Grub menu with the recovery and memory test options and cannot get past that.
I guess since it cannot find the correct path again.
Any information anyone can give me I will be grateful for and if you know what my SATA bios settings should be for the hard drive that would be great since I can only test with different combinations to come up with some better results.