Problems Installing FC1 to SATA Hard Disk

[Brian Chase]

The kernel that installs with FC1 is pre-SATA embedded support.  It's 
kind of messy, but if you want to fool with it, here's a link that 
discusses some workarounds to get you up and running.

	http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

FC1 will update using Yum or Apt-Get to a kernel that does support SATA, 
but you've got to that point with another drive in the meantime, like i 
said, messy.

My preference would be to wait for a distribution that has the newer 
kernel upon install, and sees the hardware right away and works out of 
the box.  The stable version of Fedora Core 2 is probably only a few 
months out...fyi.

BC

Mike Insch (as00000042) wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I hope someone can help me here - I've trued Google, Looking in Bugzilla,
> been on #fedora on IRC, and a few other places with no luck!
> 
> In short, I am trying to install Fedora Core 1 onto a SATA Hard Disk.  The
> SATA HDD is the only Hard Disk in the system.  The problem is that the
> installer cannot see the disk to do the install!
> 
> The relevant bits of the system spec are:
> Motherboard:  MSI KT6V-LSR (KT600 Chipset)
> CPU:  Athlon XP 2600+
> RAM:  2x Crucial 512MiB Modules
> HDD:  Maxtor 6Y120M0 120GB SATA
> 
> Does anyone have this configuration (or something with the same chipset at
> least) working with FC1?  If so, how did you get the installer to see the
> SATA HDD?
> 
> I'm not new to Linux, or to Red Hat's versions of Linux, so if there is a
> bit of fiddling to be done to get this configuration working, that's OK.
> 
> I know that FC2-test2 is out, but since this is for a "production"
> machine, I'd like to avoid using it, unless that is my only option for the
> moment.  If test2 is definately the only option, then I can only use it if
> I can "cleanly" upgrade to FC2-release when it hits the mirrors in a month
> or two!
> 
> Any help, advice, pointers or general extra info. would be appreciated.