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** No longer affects: somerville -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153702 Title: Dell Inspiron 530 SATA drive not detected in IDE mode Status in module-init-tools: Invalid Status in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “linux-source-2.6.20” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “linux-source-2.6.22” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: When configuring the SATA drive in IDE mode for the Dell Inspiron 530, the Gutsy 20071016.1 alternate installer doesn't detect the drive. So, it just fails with the error message: No root file system is defined. As mentionned in the syslog file, I tried booting with the irqpoll kernel parameter and the disk is still not detected. When configuring the SATA drive in RAID mode, the installation completes successfully. **Update Current Dell workaround/customization for their Inspiron 530n : http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_7.04/Issues/USB-SATA_race_condition_causes_hang All Vostro 200 and Inspiron 530 are configured to use IDE instead of RAID by default. The Dell inspiron 530n includes a customized ubuntu that includes the Dell workaround for that issue, however any attempt to install a new ubuntu version without dell customization leads to computers that does not boot. Configuring the computer BIOS to use RAID instead of IDE is not a valuable solution since other operating systems like Windows won't boot without pre-installed SATA drivers unless BIOS is set back to IDE. IDE is the default "compatible" mode. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/module-init-tools/+bug/153702/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
