RedHat 8 Install does not detect IDE devices

I am having difficulty installing Red Hat Linux version 8. I need Red Hat 8
because my companie's product has been developed and tested with Red Hat 8.
The Red Hat Linux 8 installation and setup program is not detecting my IDE
hard drive or CDROM drives. The install program loads in text mode and
presents a menu of installation sources of nfs, http, or ftp. The
installation program also does not detect a SCSI drive when a SCSI
controller and drive have been added to the system.

The BIOS detects the IDE and CDROM drives.

The installation programs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Knoppix 3.9, and
Windows 2000 Pro, have detected the IDE hard drive and CDROM.
The motherboard is a Tyan S5101.

The CPU is a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz.

The Hard Drive is a 40GB Seagate Barracuda ST340014A. I have also tried a
SCSI drive, a Seagate ST314453LW attached to an Adaptec 2100S SCSI
controller.

I have removed all PCI devices, including the Adaptec 2100S controller

When the Adaptec 2100s board is installed the Red Hat installation program
does load the I2O driver.

I have 2GB of memory installed, 4 x 512MB DIMMS of DDR 266 memory

I have tried the following CDROM drives: Plextor PX-W5224TA and Lite-On
LTR-522465

Another hard drive, a SCSI drive plugged into the 2100S card, with Red Hat 8
already installed, would boot.

According to Tyan, their S5101 board is supported by Red Hat 8. Their
support staff could not offer any solutions as to why the Red Hat 8
installation program would not detect the drives and said if Red Hat 8 could
not find the drive, it's Red Hat 8s problem.

So, has anyone seen this problem before? Has anyone solved this problem or
a similar problem before? Are there kernel modules, drivers, or boot
options that could or should be specified?

Adam Beach

Adam Beach wrote:

> I am having difficulty installing Red Hat Linux version 8. I need Red Hat
> 8
> because my companie's product has been developed and tested with Red Hat
> 8.

Then your company should be able to either supply or install a system with
Red Hat Linux 8. Red Hat Linux 8 is out of date and not supported by Red
Hat and most everybody else. It's time your company 'bite the bullet' and
update their product to a modern supported version of Red Hat Linux.


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