Problems with Linux booting..

[aura2]

ITE Disk Array 0 SCSI Disk Device
i am running a windows XP home eddition
The machine itself is built.

[MrLinus]

ITE?! I've never heard of ITE.

Let's see if this gives anything: fdisk -l (that's a lowercase L)

Linux RAID HowTO

[|gridley|]

It could be an onboard Promise Raid controller clone ?

try 'fdisk -l /dev/hde'

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Im assuming you can boot from the live version in the above, if you indeed can an output of `lspci` would come in helpfull probably.

[aura2]

i tried fdisk -l and fdisk -l /dev/hde and nothing happend, it just went to the next command prompt. i will try the lspci and post it in a minute

[aura2]

This is what I get from lspci

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1)
0000:00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
0000:00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
0000:00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
0000:00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
0000:00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)

0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)

0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)

0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)

0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)

0000:00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)

0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)

0000:01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

0000:01:0c.0 RAID bus controller: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT/ITE8212 Dual channel ATA RAID controller (PCI version seems to be IT8212, embedded seems (rev 11)
0000:01:0d.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) SiI 3512 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 01)

0000:01:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

0000:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

[|gridley|]

0000:01:0c.0 RAID bus controller: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT/ITE8212 Dual channel ATA RAID controller (PCI version seems to be IT8212, embedded seems (rev 11)
0000:01:0d.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) SiI 3512 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 01)


From ^^ it seems to me like you have an onboard raid controller.
I also have one but it is one of 'promise technologies' for which the first hard drive gets mapped to /dev/hde
Do you happen to know the brand/model number of your system board ?

With that information gathered perhaps you should try posting your question on 'http://www.linuxquestions.org/', its a linux specific forum.

[aura2]

the brand and model of the board is. gigabyte k7 triton series, AGP8x/dual channel ddr with onboard raid

[|gridley|]

You got an ATA(or SATA) onboard RAID controller.
Here is a howto.
http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~hol...aid_howto.html

Since fdisk -l does not output anything in knoppix, the booted environment does not

reckonize the hard-drive.

Perhaps some boot options will help knoppix reckon you hdd

(http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=...G=Zoeken&meta=) , otherwise you

might want to try installing from a 'normal' installer like slack, debian or suse.
When using Debian be sure to boot the bf24 kernel at install time.

Once you have booted one of the install disks (http://www.linuxiso.org/), check out fdisk -l

again to see if the disk get reckonised.
If it does, follow the install instructions.

Otherwise, feel free to post more questions.

Cheers

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Feel free to post questions anyhow. [esc][:wq]