Flandry
January 14th, 2013, 06:12 AM
Good evening. I think i know what's wrong but am not sure how to go about fixing it. Here's the deal:
I have a GA-A75N-USB3 motherboard (AMD A75 chipset) w/ llano APU. I am using a hard drive i used in a previous box, and it was dual-boot winxp and kubuntu. I have been using windows reinstalled on the win partition since i got the new box and am now trying to install linux. All the hardware works fine in windows.
The problem:
Not one distro installer that i have tried detects the hdd or cdrom! I can boot the install CD (or a USB key with the install on it) but then it fails to find any media but the USB key. There are no other sd devices or any other devices that could be a hdd or cdrom.
I have tried the latest kubuntu, mint, debian stable and mepis installers, and they all hit the same problem.
So, kernel doesn't support my mobo's storage controller chip? Besides "wtf?!" (mobo is about a year old at this point, and not exactly from a no-name OEM), what's to be said about this?
A look at the mobo spec page
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4030#sp
says the I/O Controller is iTE IT8720 chip and I don't see any other specific third-party chip info that seems relevant. The hits i found for IT8720 all seem to be about HW monitoring rather than SATA so that's not it.
I went back to a review i read before buying the board and it says there are no additional ATA controller chips:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboards/display/mini-itx-socket-fm1.html#sect0
Very confusing.
Please help me figure out how to get linux on this box. Thanks.
I have a GA-A75N-USB3 motherboard (AMD A75 chipset) w/ llano APU. I am using a hard drive i used in a previous box, and it was dual-boot winxp and kubuntu. I have been using windows reinstalled on the win partition since i got the new box and am now trying to install linux. All the hardware works fine in windows.
The problem:
Not one distro installer that i have tried detects the hdd or cdrom! I can boot the install CD (or a USB key with the install on it) but then it fails to find any media but the USB key. There are no other sd devices or any other devices that could be a hdd or cdrom.
I have tried the latest kubuntu, mint, debian stable and mepis installers, and they all hit the same problem.
So, kernel doesn't support my mobo's storage controller chip? Besides "wtf?!" (mobo is about a year old at this point, and not exactly from a no-name OEM), what's to be said about this?
A look at the mobo spec page
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4030#sp
says the I/O Controller is iTE IT8720 chip and I don't see any other specific third-party chip info that seems relevant. The hits i found for IT8720 all seem to be about HW monitoring rather than SATA so that's not it.
I went back to a review i read before buying the board and it says there are no additional ATA controller chips:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboards/display/mini-itx-socket-fm1.html#sect0
Very confusing.
Please help me figure out how to get linux on this box. Thanks.