Installing linux on SATA disk

[RosenKrantz]

Hey... I have 2 dvds of openSUSE 10.2 one is 32 bit and one 64... I can boot them with no problems but there is problem with installing linux... after booting I press install and it is little bit loading and then message shows that it can not find install cd and I've tried to install kubuntu (orig. cd) and ubuntu (orig. cd & dvd) and it shows me the same mistake... I've done exactly as you wrote in forum about burning images... My friend thinks that it is because I have SATA disk... My computer is:

processor: Intel core 2 duo 1.87 Ghz; 2MB
motherboard: Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6
graphic: Sapphire radeon X1950PRO 256MB PCIe
hard disk: Seagate ST3320620AS 320GB

I would be pleased if somebody can tell me how to resolve this problem... I've found something on http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html and as I understand it wants from me to change SATA to Parallel ATA in bios... but I've tried but I can't find the way where can I do that... Please help me...

[oldcpu]

Make sure you try the "Safe installation" mode.

You could look for a Legacy mode in your BIOS for SETA.

If you have any external hard drive devices connected, you could disconnect them until after a successful install is completed.

I read of some SATA users who successfully used the following boot code:
linux pci=nomsi

The articles I read were not clear as to which SATA controllers this worked on.

[RosenKrantz]

Make sure you try the "Safe installation" mode.

You could look for a Legacy mode in your BIOS for SETA.

If you have any external hard drive devices connected, you could disconnect them until after a successful install is completed.

I read of some SATA users who successfully used the following boot code:
linux pci=nomsi

The articles I read were not clear as to which SATA controllers this worked on.

I've tried safe installation and i've tried entering boot code but i didn't help... the same problem... and for bios i didn't understand you well... yes and i don't knov which sata controller i have exactly sorry... is there anything else what you think it could be problem?... you see when i press install and after some loading suddenly cd/dvd stops spining and few moments after that it says that he can't find installation cd... :S oh yes and i don't have any external hard drive plugged in my cpu...

[HLStyle]

I have heard some very very bad things about the 320GB SATA's... I have previously have problems with IDE 320's ... so when I went to SATA... I went min.. of 400's. Nobody seems to know what the deal is but there are all sorts of IO errors.

That may or may not be the problem. just an fyi

[RosenKrantz]

I have heard some very very bad things about the 320GB SATA's... I have previously have problems with IDE 320's ... so when I went to SATA... I went min.. of 400's. Nobody seems to know what the deal is but there are all sorts of IO errors.

That may or may not be the problem. just an fyi

Well i don't know mine works fine and everybody told me that mine hdd is fine hdd :P... but ok... and yes thank you everybody for help... i've called service which composed my cpu and they told me that it is problem in my motherboard and her sata controller... so they told me that i have to boot linux from usb... so i'll try to do that and i'll hope that it will work... thank you...