Suse Installtion Dvd Hangs While Loading Motherboard Drivers

[eekie]

My computer with Asrock Alive NF5-eSATA2+ motherboard still stubbornly resists installing suse 10.3.
The install DVD hangs during loading of the asrock drivers apparently contained in the installation DVD.
The log of the driver installation shows the following:

Asrock In MCP65 IDE
driversata_amd, amd 74xx, ata_generic, generic
Asrock In MCP65 AHCI Controller
drivers: ahci
loading ahci_

The last underscore representing the cursor blinking forever.
I do not use ahci mode at all. I have raid mode with two equal disks raid 0 and two inequal disks as jbod.
Is this a suse problem or a motherboard problem? And what should I do?
I succeeded installing kubuntu gibbon on one of the jbod disks after a lot of trouble with the grub installation.
Basicly it should be possible though to install linux on my system.

[tyc]

Just saw your posting and thought I'd offer the following ...

Last night I helped a friend load Suse v10.0 onto his laptop and at first we used the DVD which I h

ave and after three failures we switched to the CDs - worked like a champ with the CDs. See if you can load the software via CD as opposed to DVD.

Hope this helps.

tyc

[eekie]

I have tried the cd's, the internet set-up cd's, and cd's and dvd's of earlier versionss of suse. They all fail!

[Jonathan183]

I have tried the cd's, the internet set-up cd's, and cd's and dvd's of earlier versionss of suse. They all fail!

Does the live CD run on the system?

[eekie]

No the live cd didn't work either. I have scrutinized the start-up log and came across some advice to install with the option: brokenmodules=ahci.
The hang is over now, but I am running into many new problems.
So far I have succeeded only once to install suse, but then I could not start it.
I had to fiddle around with the bios settings. Deleting the jbod and setting the sata controller to non-raid. The set-up program could even then not find any harddisk. And in only one instance after loading some extra drivers in the manual set-up mode (loading the ahci driver there failed again) and after formatting the destination drive ext3 in kubuntu, the installer found the drives. I could mount the suse partitions in kubuntu, but for me it was impossible to find the right start-up partition when I made the entry for suse in the kubuntu grub file.
File not found it said although I had the right kernel name.
So I deleted the suse partitions again, but now suse doesn't find hard disks any more whatever I do!