"No device drivers" problem during Enterprise Linux installation

Question

I want to try and see Oracle Enterprise Linux, so I downloaded prepared for the setup. This is a home pc, I use windows upto now and this is the first time I tried to install Linux on this one, here is my configuration;
Mainboard : Gigabyte m61vme-s2 s940
Cpu : AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1,8Ghz
Hd : Samsung 80Gb 72000 rpm 8Mb Sata (2 disks)
When the installer starts first this message box comes;
- WARNING -
No hard drivers have been found. You probably need to manually choose device drivers for the installation to succeed.
Then I continue and;
- DEVICES -
No deivce drivers have been loaded for your system. (Add Device) button
when I click this button a list comes;
- SELECT DEVICE DRIVER TO LOAD -
Please select the driver below which you wish to load. If it does not appear and you have driver disk press F2.
here I both tries to continue with F2 or choose some of the items which I thought may be ok to continue but each time the anaconda installation failed at the Automatic Partitioning step with this message;
- NO DRIVERS FOUND -
An error has occured - No valid devices were found on which to create new file systems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem.
I can use these disks with windows, but still if any hardware problems I do have how can I get detail troubleshooting information? Any links for resources like how to guides will be great.
Thank you,
Best regards.

Answer 1

I recently (two weeks ago) did a complete rebuild on a AMD 64 system similiar to your configuration with CentOS 4.3 (a RedHat ES clone) and had no problem with the SATA (only) drive being picked up by the OS installer. I remember originaly (a year ago) having to carefully set the MB BIOS to go to this bus first to look for boot drives and NOT look to the IDE bus at all. I will review my system install docs when I get home later...