Tom Austin wrote:

> Many motherboards are using the Marvell IDE controller - which is 
> currently not supported by most Linux distributions.
> 
> So while it starts booting fine, when it hands off to the kernel 
> everything comes to a screeching halt because it cannot find the CD.

Interesting...

My motherboard uses the nVidia nForce 4 chipset, and as a result many 
Linux live CDs can't see any of the SATA drives. However, they all find 
the PATA ones just fine.

(I remember seeing "Marvell" and thinking "oo, that's what I have". But 
it isn't. I have a Marvell NIC. The IDE controller is nVidia.)

I discovered that many if not most live CDs can be coaxed into seeing 
the drives by manually executing a modprobe command. (No, I have no idea 
which one... and it wouldn't help you anyway.)

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