Ubuntu with SATA and IDE

If you're installing Ubuntu on a machine with an IDE cdrom and an SATA hard drive, the following information will be extremely helpful.

Stollen from here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1440

  1. boot up installer as normal
  2. Choose Language
  3. Skip to tty2 by hitting alt-F2
  4. do:

insmod /lib/modules/2.6.xxxxx/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.xxxxx/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-core.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.xxxxx/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-generic.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.xxxxx/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.xxxxx/kernel/drivers/ideide-core.ko

  1. Return to tty1 by hitting alt-F1
  2. Continue as usual loading other modules after the above are in place.

UPDATE The original post was wrong. The above is now correct. Unfortunately the info in that bug fix was not quite 100%