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I just recently installed Sabayon 5.4 but at first I tried with the vdi on the SATA controller. It maybe got 15% along then stopped. Tried it twice and wasn't the first version of Sabayon it's happened with. Last time I had to make a fixed disk. Any thoughts on why it won't install with a SATA controller?

thanks

Which VB version and do you have I/O Cache enabled for the SATA controller?

Sasquatch wrote:Which VB version and do you have I/O Cache enabled for the SATA controller?

VB 3.2.8 and I believe I did, although I can't swear to it. I usually turn hardware caching on, but I suppose I could of forgotten.

Could you try again with a new VDI file (just detach the existing VDI and attach the test one to SATA) and post the log of that run (in case if fails too) here as attachment.

Sasquatch wrote:Could you try again with a new VDI file (just detach the existing VDI and attach the test one to SATA) and post the log of that run (in case if fails too) here as attachment.

well, made a new VDI, installed without a hitch. SO, either I forgot to turn on caching, which I don't think I did since it was already on when I attached the new VDI, or somehow as I was going through the installer setup and I forgot to do something then.

Now that I have two VDIs it brings up a question. I had already added apps, themes etc. to the VDI created on the IDE controller. Is there some way to copy, move, clone the IDE VDI to the SATA VDI?

No worries, you can just attach the VDI that originally was attached to IDE to SATA now. Linux isn't like Windows where it cares much for the hardware it runs on. The second VDI was only a test, you can remove it.