I manager to fix this issue completely on Monday on my Dell Inspiron 530s with the help of the following thread.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=765195&page=7 I simply added "all_generic_ide floppy=off irqpoll" after the -- as suggested and was able to boot and install from the Live CD. Then I added the same to Grub and I was done. David -- Dell Inspiron 530 SATA drive not detected in IDE mode https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153702 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs