fedora installer not recognizing SATA

[dole 0]

Hello

i am trying to install Fedora 6 on the Dell Optiplex box and installer does not recognize the SATA drive.

The BIOS does not have an option to switch to PATA.

Is there a way to upgrade the installer?

Any other solution?

 

thank you

[danleff 0]

You did not specify what exact Optiplex model that you have, but have you considered Fedora 8, which would likely support your system hardware?

[dole 0]

It is Optiplex 775

I actually have Fedora 8 running on it now. The problem is that I have problems with video quality (due to either driver or new Xorg). So I wanted to backtrack to Fedora 6...

 

thnx

[danleff 0]

Take a look at this article.

 

It describes a different model, but what happens when you pass;

 

linux pci=nomsi as he did at the installer splash screen?

 

What graphics card is in this system?

[dole 0]

I cannot get past 'Select driver' stage at the very beginning. The installer cannot find the hard drive, offers to Select driver, i choose 'ata_piix' and it fails.

 

The box has Q35 chipset and integrated 3100 Intel graphics

[danleff 0]

Looks like ICH9 support for sata, from what I have read, was not available until the 2.6.21 kernel. This would explain why Fedora 8 works.