Problems installing 8.04.1 alternate amd64 on HP xw6400
Nate Moore
NMOORE at co.pierce.wa.us
Thu Sep 11 20:57:40 UTC 2008
I have an HP xw6400 with a TSST TS-H492C CD-RW/DVD-ROM and a Maxtor ATLAS10K5_146SAS hard disk. When I boot off the Ubuntu 8.04.1 alternate amd64 cd neither devices is recognized. There is a message about "SRST failed" before the installer interface starts. I'm stuck at the installation step where the it is looking for the CD-ROM. I've dropped into a terminal session to check the output of dmesg and as far as I can tell it does not see my optical drive or my hard drive. Loading the ahci module does not help to see the CD-ROM and I don't believe I'll be able to partition my hard disk as the mptsas module isn't provided (maybe it's built-in?).
I know this system works fine as has been running WindowsXP Professional.
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks!
Nate
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