Bug 439398

Summary: F9 - Installer does not detect MacBook hardrive
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: ryan roth <ryan.roth>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description ryan roth 2008-03-28 15:17:04 UTC 
Description of problem:

The Fedora 9 installer does not detect the hard drive in the MacBook.  I did a
install through F8 also and when booting the F9 kernel does not detect the hard
drive.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Fedora 9 Beta

How reproducible:

Get a MacBook and try to install

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Insert DVD
2.  Boot
3.  Try to install
  
Actual results:

Drive not detected

Expected results:

Drive to be detected

Additional info:

I also had the same issue when trying to compile the 2.6.25-rc5 kernel on F8. 
It would compile file but upon a reboot it would not boot because it could not
detect the drive.
Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2008-04-03 03:54:49 UTC 
What kind of macbook? And what messages does the driver print when it loads?
Comment 2 ryan roth 2008-04-03 14:05:56 UTC 
It is a two month old Santa Rosa (MacBook 4,1).  The messages all say that the
different partitions cannot be mounted, but I do not see any other errors.  It
has something to do with the sata driver I think.  I am here at your disposal to
try anything.
Comment 3 ryan roth 2008-04-23 18:59:31 UTC 
This is still an issue with the FC9 Preview Release.
Comment 4 ryan roth 2008-04-23 21:40:33 UTC 
This problem is still present in the 2.6.25 kernel downloaded from kernel.org

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10512
Comment 5 Chuck Ebbert 2008-04-24 01:48:48 UTC 
You should be able to switch to console 2 using ctrl-alt-f2 and run the dmesg
command to see the entire kernel log. If you write that output to a USB stick
you can attach it to this bug report.
Comment 6 ryan roth 2008-04-24 14:21:58 UTC 
Created attachment 303636 [details]
dmesg dump from FC9 installer
Comment 7 ryan roth 2008-04-25 17:35:41 UTC 
Created attachment 303804 [details]
lspci -nvv dump from fc9 installer
Comment 8 ryan roth 2008-04-26 14:58:03 UTC 
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10512
Comment 9 Chuck Ebbert 2008-04-27 01:27:14 UTC 
Try adding "pci=nomsi" to the kernel boot options.
Comment 10 ryan roth 2008-04-29 16:25:05 UTC 
It look like this is a kernel bug related to SIDPR, we are currently testing
patches to resolve it

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10512
Comment 11 ryan roth 2008-04-29 21:21:34 UTC 
What are the odds of committing the patches from the kernel.org bugzilla to the
FC9 final kernel so that we can have a working installer for laptops using this
chipset?

Thanks
Comment 12 Chuck Ebbert 2008-04-30 05:00:30 UTC 
(In reply to comment #11)
> What are the odds of committing the patches from the kernel.org bugzilla to the
> FC9 final kernel so that we can have a working installer for laptops using this
> chipset?
> 

The odds are good if we can get a final patch. This bug is on the blocker list
now...
Comment 13 ryan roth 2008-04-30 14:18:09 UTC 
Excellent you guys are now officially my heroes :)

Also it looks like the guys at kernel.org are almost ready for an official patch too
Comment 14 ryan roth 2008-05-01 00:58:11 UTC 
There is a final patch on the kernel bugzilla page now and it is being committed
to the kernel.  The bug is officially closed there.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10512
Comment 15 Chuck Ebbert 2008-05-01 02:02:35 UTC 
Patch in 2.6.25-13