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Yeah, I'm having the same problem.

I'm running Abit's IC-7, Intel 875P chipset. In my configuration I've got 2 SATA hard drives and 2 legacy cd-rom IDE drives.

With combined mode set in BIOS, (this mode has SATA devices in IDE 0) I can boot off the CD just fine. But get the same error ("no common cd-rom was found yadi yadi blah blah") when it tries to install the base system.

With SATA disabled in BIOS, installer detects the CD-ROM fine, but then again I don't have any hard drives on which to install anymore.

With enhanced mode (this mode has SATA and both IDE channels enabled) the installer detectes the cd-rom fine but hangs when trying to load some SCSI driver.

I tried to run the installer in expert mode and look for the offending SCSI module and disallow it from loading to no avail. On that note, I also tried loading ata_piix module with modprobe, since the installer keeps on telling that that specific module is needed but could not be loaded.

And to all you guys screaming "it's a bad burn!!11" or "bad cd!!1one", or some other crap about "bad" hardware or "bad hardware configuration", the fact is that it's the installer that's broken. And broken badly. (I have slackware/xp running just fine on the system, and the same cd was used to install ubuntu on some other pc)

All in all, it seems to be such a shame that the installer doesn't work properly with systems with SATA disks. The distro seems pretty cool and nifty otherwise.

Also I must note that all kind of trickery to workaround the problem "install on some other hd and migrate the system later onto a SATA disk, etc" is just plain unacceptable.