FC2 AMD_64 Bug #120145

[Marshall Lewis]

Oh, let me clarify "and they'll work"  by that I mean you can fdisk the
drive, mount the partitions, format etc.. from the shell, but anaconda
(the installer) won't see it/them.

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 21:34, Marshall Lewis wrote:
> Yeah, I reported the problem a bit over a month ago...
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=116537
> 
> Not sure how to work around it (in my case though I'm actually
> installing to scsi disks, I just noticed the sata drive wasn't there). 
> If you boot from the boot.iso, it will find the drive, but once anaconda
> starts it goes away...   One you're in anaconda the module is already
> loaded (sata_via), but the device nodes don't exist.. you can make them
> yourself, and they'll work, but I guess the install has gone too far by
> that point for anaconda to see them.
> 
> --
>  Marshall
> 
> On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 21:09, Michael Bailey wrote:
> > G'day people,
> > 
> > I posted this bug a couple of days ago to Bugzilla, anyone else 
> > encountered this problem with FC2 Test 2 (AMD_64)?
> > 
> > > From Bugzilla Helper:
> > > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6)
> > > Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
> > > 
> > > Description of problem:
> > > When attempting to instal the x86_64 version of Core 2/Test 2,
> > > Anaconda fails to detect the SATA HDD attached via a VIA 8237 controller.
> > > 
> > > "No valid devices found. ..."
> > > 
> > > Attempted installing via driver disk located at
> > > http://www.planetamd64.com/modules/mx_pafiledb/dload.php?action=download&file_id=87
> > > , no luck (no valid device found on driver disk).
> > > 
> > > Ran with noprobe and manually selected via_sata driver, same response.
> > > 
> > > Gigabyte GA-K8VNXP
> > > Athlon 64 3000+
> > > Samsung 120GB SATA
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> > > 
> > > 
> > > How reproducible:
> > > Always
> > > 
> > > Steps to Reproduce:
> > > 1.  Insert install disc 1 and boot
> > > 2.  Run vanilla setup
> > > 3.  Installation will halt after partitioning method selection
> > >     
> > > 
> > > Actual Results:  Dialog "No valid devices found...".  Install stops
> > > and system shuts down cleanly.
> > > 
> > > Expected Results:  SATA HDD detected and partitioning proceeds.
> > > 
> > > Additional info:
> > > 
> > > Drive _was_ correctly detected in Core 1 for AMD64, however the
> > > distribution would not run X on the Radeon 9800Pro.
> > > 
> > > I'm not a complete Linux newbie, but am by no means an expert, so let
> > > me know if the problem lies between my ears...
> > > 
> > > regards,
> > > 
> > > mick
> > 
> > 
>