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v43

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Registered: 2011-02-03

Posts: 140

[trash] installer can't detect drive

I've got a compact flash/IDE adapter, and wanted to install archlinux in that CF.

Unfortunately the bios of my old laptop won't recognize the adapter. No biggie, I can always put grub on a usb drive, right?

The real problem is that the archlinux installer won't 'see' the disk either! But I know it's there because clonezilla live can see and manipulate it flawlessly.
So how can I force the detection of such device? what can I do to make the installer behave like clonezilla?

EDIT: please remove this thread. it appears either the laptop motherboard or the cf/ide adapter aren't working properly. now the drive has been detected and I installed Arch, but sometimes the bios ignores it.

Last edited by v43 (2012-02-27 16:11:40)