Tag: Asus P5Q Premium
Installing Ubuntu 8.04 64Bit on an Asus P5Q Premium Motherboard with SATA drive
by Craig Mayhew on Oct.25, 2008, under Guides/Fixes, Linux/Ubuntu
Thought I’d share some quick fixes to get Ubuntu 8.04 working on an Asus P5Q Premium motherboard. These will probably also help with similar problems in Ubuntu 7.04 and Ubuntu 7.10 when using SATA drives.
The problems I had were centred around using a 64GB OCZ Solid State SATA drive. The installer would hang most of the time and when it did finally make it to the disk partitioning stage it couldn’t see the hard disk.
Enter into the motherboard BIOS and change the following options:
- Under Main / Storage Configuration change “Configure SATA as …” to AHCI. This will fix linux not being able to see the SATA drive.
Hope that saves you some time and trouble!
