On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Abhijith Madhav
<abhijithmadhav(a)gmail.com> wrote:
. I am trying to install fedora 10 on this laptop,
http://www.hclstore.in/hcl_leaptop_k38.html from a DVD drive.
. I get the following on the console after the installation starts.
I'm unable to capture them in their entirety as they scroll off in a
flash. Please note that the below is handwritten.
<.....snip....>
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
<Repeats five more times>
.
<....snip...>
"
Unable to find any devices of the type needed for this installation
type. Would you like to manually select your driver or use a driver
disk.
"
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I can't confirm this works but is worth a try:
Check in your BIOS and see whether there is an option to set the
SATA mode Selection to AHCI.
~af