Hi Aditya! > I am trying to install ubuntu 5.04 with a MSI RS480 Mobo, Seagate 80GB > SATA disk. > > The installation halts with the error as "No partitionable media were > found. Please check that hard disk is attached to this machine".
I faced similar problem long back. I'm Intel D865GBF mobo. In the BIOS, there are options in something like advanced disk configuration section, where you can select which disk controllers are to be enabled. Maybe something similar is there for your mobo as well. In my case, the problem was that SATA support was very basic at that time and the restriction was that max 4 disk ports can be enabled and if I want to use SATA, either one of the normal ATA controllers must be disabled. The options available were: Enable all, S1/S2 and IDE primary, S1/S2 and IDE secondary, IDE primary and secondary only, Disable all. (I'm recalling from old times so I might not be very precise here. Please excuse :-) ) Only then would Linux find my SATA hdd and treat it as normal ATA!!! But atleast it worked. Try something like this, maybe it'll help. Drop me a mail if you need anything else. I'll be happy to help. Regards, Kapil -- "The Power to Imagine, is The Power to Create!" -TTux -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.