Another No disks found during Install

[Bernard Lecuire]

sergio lenzi a écrit :
> Em Qui, 2008-08-14 às 23:29 +0200, Bernard Lecuire escreveu:
>> Hello,
>> I have a problem with the installation.
>> I choose country, keyboard and then I can not continue installation,
>> because it says "No disks found! Please verify that your disk controller is being..."
>>
>> Hardware: Acer Aspire M1641,Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180, nVidia GeForce 7050, sata-500 
>>
>> Here is what i get during boot sequence:
>>
>> (...cut...)
>> hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 24 2008 10:34:18)
>> (...cut...)
>> atapci0: <nVidia nForce MCP73 UDMA133 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 8.0 on pci0
>> ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
>> ata0: [ITHREAD]
>> ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
>> ata1: [ITHREAD]
>> (...cut...)
>>
>> I tried to install without success FreeBSD 7.0, 8.0, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and 4-5 Linux distros.
>> Anyone an idea?
>> Bernard
>>
>>     
> In my country (Brazil) you could go to the shop
> before 7 days passed after you bought this "*%$$@"  and
> change for a TRUE notebook ....  HP, Asus, toshiba, LG..  with no 
> questions asked...
>
> I think that ACER makes their hardware to work only for windows vista....
> and works very bad indeed...
> please stay away from those "&#%###"
> I do not see any good thing in ACER.....
> 1) they do not care about customers,
> 2) the main board is stripped down to a minimum
> 3) the bios is "unique"  totally out of any convension and
>     always buggy....
> 4) the battery has fewer cells...
> 5) the wireless is poor...
>
> Only the price is good... but compare it with a good notebook,
> you will see that those 200 dollars less that you pay for an acer
> is TOO expensive... 
> Even using windows,  you will spend that more by the time you
> will need an  anti-virus + an office pack...
>
> In 6 more months, acer will drop down that line and you will
> not find any replacement part of it... Like many things done
> in asia, it is only a "toy"....
> Want a good notebook??? buy an apple book... in an apple
> store you can buy a good one for about 1200 dollars....
> 13 inches, dual core, 1gb of memory 120gb of disk....
> everything works... even Leopard....
>
>
>
> Sergio
>
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>>     
Good diagnosis. I changed the motherboard (to Asus), and now it works!
Bye
Bernard