installation of ubuntu on core2duo system with sata hard disk

[cl at isbd.net]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:10:19PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Thursday 12 October 2006 17:07, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 17:43 +0530, Tamil Books wrote:
> > > When I try to install Ubuntu I Cannot load it and the system hangs.
> > > How to go about it
> >
> > Please describe exactly what happens.
> >
> Also please include your motherboard type and if your CD/DVD player is SATA or 
> PATA.
> 
By the way I now have my Abit AB9 Pro motherboard with Core 2 Duo
processor up and running.  The major thing that I did to get this
going was to buy a SATA CD/DVD drive to replace the original IDE
(PATA) one that I had installed.

All you need to do then is to turn on AHCI in the BIOS, have all the
drives connected to the Intel ICH8R SATA interfaces (which is the one
you'd normally use) and most distributions will install without
problems (I've tried Suse 10.1, Mandriva 2006, Ubuntu 6.06 and Slackware
11).

The only remaining issue is then the driver for the on board Gigabit
ethernet, this needs to be compiled as a module.  For my initial
testing etc. I have stuck an older (well supported) 100Mb/s NIC in the
system.

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)