unable to find any devices of the type needed for this installation

[dishantnalwa]

i'm having amd athlon X2 dual core processor 5000+ 2.60 ghz processor on nvidia motherboard
320 gb westerndigital sata hard disk
2 gb ram

i'm facing problem while making my desktop dual boot
i'm having windows xp service pack 2 os on which i'm installing linux 5.1
when i boot from dvd i'm displayed unable to find any devices of the type needed for this installation type
i also used linux all-generic-ide irqpocl pci=nommconf
it worked and the installation was done but after reboot i recieved error message of kernel panic
i'm having sata hd then how were my partitions labeled as hda during installation

please suggest me solution for this problem

[MikeTbob]

Hello and Welcome.
Please check your BIOS for any SATA/Legacy IDE settings....or you might need to update your BIOS if more than a few years old.

[dishantnalwa]

thanks for reply sir

what i have to check in bios and how to update bios

[dishantnalwa]

sir
i had actually found what is the problem
it is
ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOTE_FOUND, Processor device is not present [20060707]

how to overcome this issue...if any one help i'll be highly obliged