No partitions detected during Install of 8.04

[Zenkai]

Hi there,

I attempted to do an updated to 8.04 via the Admin updated, after reboot I got kicked into busybox, I booted into recovery mode and noticed an error with DMA and it suggested that I needed to upgrade my sr driver I think, the system seemed to be saying that my HD was very slow to respond. I tried gparted from the liveCD terminal and it didn't detect any partitions.

I tried changing the udma type in the bios but the CD install of hardy still refuses to see my disk. I reinstalled gusty from CD and it detects my disk and works without a hitch.

Any suggestions? I'm fairly new to linux so you may need to take it step by step.

Cheers
Zenk

p.s. System is a Compaq Presario 6092EA with a single 160GB HD, no other OS.

[Pumalite]

Some people have had success going to BIOS and changing AHCI or IDE to RAID.

[Zenkai]

The drive is an IDE WD1600 JB, I've tried changing the Transfer mode from Max UDMA to PIO, I only have 2 PIO modes and 3 DMA modes.

No RAID onboard.

[Pumalite]

Burn a new CD. Follow this guide:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto?highlight=%28burn%29%7C%28
Do md5sum, burn at 4x or less, on CD-R of good quality, check CD integrity before install.

[Zenkai]

Did that to start with, the CD has already been used to upgrade my laptop as well.

[Pumalite]

Post:
lshw

[Zenkai]

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I think it might be easier to solve this problem if I do another update to heron via the update manager and then post the exact error I get during the boot sequence. Does that seem like a good idea?

Cheers
Zenk

[Pumalite]

The kernel is not recognizing a lot of stuff in your hardware.
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