Here is a workaround that appears to solve all of the problems I mentioned in the initial report. This is necessarily specific to a Dell Dimension 8400 with similar BIOS (mine is version A01 of 07/17/04).
1. Before booting the install disk, enter the BIOS "System Setup". 2. Using the menu, select "Drives". 3. From the resulting submenu, select "SATA Operation". 4. From the 4 operation modes offered, select RAID Autodetect / ATA . The other three options are RAID Autodetect / AHCI RAID On Combination 5. Boot the install disk. 6. At the prompt, enter "expert26". The rest of the installation went fine, and both the hard drive and CDROM were found after bootup once installation was complete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
