Please help with Ubuntu Installation

[ECE0105]

Hi,

I have a P4 2.8 with an Intel D101GGC Mobo and a Seageate SATA (200GB) HDD.

I tried installing Ubuntu, but it says that there is No HDD Detected.

I currently have 7 partitions on the HDD and all in NTFS.

PLease help....

[praka123]

pls check ur BIOS settings w.r.t hdd setup.

[ECE0105]

HDD is connected to SATA Port0.

DVD-/+RW is connected to IDE Primary as Master.

I also tried Linspire and Red Hat 9. with the same result. But I am using Windows XP and 2k3

[praka123]

ie wat i also have problem with my gigabyte 915 board also have BIOS setting which is very tricky to find out to set the hardddisk priority.so my advice is you should tinker with the settings which are related to harddisk settings.if u want i can post wat did with BIOS- when after a reboot

[mehulved]

Which version of Ubuntu and Linspire did you try? Red Hat 9 won't detect SATA drives cos it's too outdated. There were no SATA drives at that time.

[ECE0105]

Ubuntu 5.04 and Linspire 5.1

[mehulved]

They're outdated too and have no support for SATA that's why your hard disk isn't getting detected. You need something recent.

[praka123]

yeah.i though u've got latest ubuntu.you needs a 2.6 kernel based distro

[dabster]

@ECE0105: search for LUG in your city and get the newest distro.
or you may order the free Ubuntu 6.06 which will hopefully detect your hardware.

[ECE0105]

I have put in a request for the Latest Fedora Core in the Distro Request Thread and hopefully should be getting a Reply.

Thanks for all your replies guys... Repping you all.

[mehulved]

Best way will be, as Dabster said, to contact your nearest LUG. Check up here List of GNU/Linux user groups in India and on google.