From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; H010818) Description of problem: Unable to install 2.1 U4 beta0316 on a x306 with SCSI drives (Adaptec 7901B controller). Installation works with 2.1 Update 3. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install 2.1 U4 beta0311 on x306. 2. At Partitioning screen, attempt to setup partitions (using automatic patitioning). Actual Results: "No valid devices were found" message appears. lsmod does not show the aic79xx driver. Expected Results: Installer loads the aic79xx driver automatically. Additional info: This can be worked around by building a device driver disk from CD1 and using the "linux dd" option on install. The user can then switch to a bash prompt prior to setting up the partions and issue a modprobe aic79xxx. By swapping back to X-windows the install can continue normally at this point.
The driver is in the initrd used for CD booting. What's the output of lspci and lspci -n? Also, are you booting from CD or floppy (if you boot from floppy, you need to boot with linux dd and also supply the drvblock.img when prompted)?
Created attachment 99042 [details] lspci output
Created attachment 99043 [details] lspci -n output
Created attachment 99044 [details] syslog
It's not in the pcitable
Fixed in 0.99.42.3.2-1.