FC2 AMD_64 Bug #120145

[Michael Bailey]

Cool...thanks for that.  I'll give this one a go...

mtb

Mark wrote:

> 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.
>>
> 
> I believe this is a kernel issue that has been resolved in newer
> kernels. sd_mod wasn't loading when libata drivers were. If you drop to
> a command line during the install and modprobe sd_mod, your sata drives
> should show up in anaconda.
> 
>