<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I have followed that up to the modprobe bit. It says 'FATAL: Module pata_cs5535.ko not found.'. The command issued was /sbin/modprobe pata_cs5535.ko. The .ko file is in /lib/modules/2v6v28-11-generic Cannot work out from google what I am doing wrong there. Alan Pope wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:eba6d2300907181404g4e874bd8w841f7dd1ed56b65c@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">2009/7/18 Tony Harrison <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tony@mitsy.co.uk"><tony@mitsy.co.uk></a>: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Thanks for that, it was the pci=noacpi I had forgot to do. Xubuntu then failed while booting anyway, something about X terminal I think it was? But I made a new usb stick with ubuntu server on which installed but it would only give me the option to install it to the usb stick rather than the HDD. Do I need to use a CD-rom drive to install to the HDD? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> That's also covered on the same wiki page :) The driver for the hard drive controller isn't in the kernel that you get with an ubuntu install. I filed a bug but it's not been fixed. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/318805">https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/318805</a> is the bug report. I have put the module needed:- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://popey.com/~alan/viglen/2.6.27-7-generic_pata_cs5535.ko">http://popey.com/~alan/viglen/2.6.27-7-generic_pata_cs5535.ko</a> for 2.6.27 (for Ubuntu 8.10) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://popey.com/~alan/viglen/2.6.28-11-generic_pata_cs5535.ko">http://popey.com/~alan/viglen/2.6.28-11-generic_pata_cs5535.ko</a> for 2.6.28 (for Ubuntu 9.04) Grab the one for the version of Ubuntu you're installing and rename it to pata_cs5535.ko. What I had to do was boot the USB stick, then (before the partitioning section, but after the network comes up) switch to a terminal (ALT+F4) and the scp from another machine over the network, then modprobe it to load it into memory, then switch back to the installer (ALT+F1) and continue. If that doesn't make sense, let me know. Cheers, Al. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>