Bug 90656
| Summary: | GinGin64 loads the Promise SATA driver for RH8 but fails to find any HDD | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Jackson <webmaster> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | GinGin64 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-05-12 16:52:45 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Red Hat Linux 8.0 driver disks are for an entirely different architecture (ia32). GinGin64 is an AMD64 operating system. The kernel modules will not work. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: Do a Clean install on WD Raptor SATA Drive, + Dual Opteron + HDAMA board + using it's onboard Promise SATA150 TX4 = Nothing will work because lack of driver (support) for any SATA, I tried using SATA Driver for RH8 for SMP still nothing. sigh .... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Clean Install, Boot : Expert or linux dd 2.Prompt you for Driver, yes, and it seems to be able to load the RH8 Driver 3.at the Parition part Disk Durid saids no HDD found, installation abort Actual Results: installation cannot contiune. Expected Results: at least it should be able to "use" the older driver and at least let me complete the installation first....sigh Additional info: