On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 09:36:47AM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I think I have found the answer myself, see:-
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Core_2_Duo_SupportSo - does any Linux distribution install "out of the box" on an Intel 965 chip based system yet?
But that article suggests that the problem is using a PATA CD Rom on a chipset that is only directly aware of SATA drives.
In fact one of the workarounds suggested is to use a PATA-SATA converter to get in to exactly the same position you are in now (all SATA drives)
To be honest I'm not exactly sure what my CD/DVD drive is, I'll have to check.
One workaround may be to put an IDE CD drive in the system, I have some old[er] drives and the motherboard does have an IDE interface.
This is a sort of related problem, but it's not the problem you are having.
What is relevant is the stuff at the end of that page..where the guy is talking about different ports connecting to different controllers.
The motherboard has no less than ten SATA interfaces and I think they're of two (possibly three) types. It's an Abit AB9 Pro.