From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Attempting to install FedoraCore3 Test1 from SATA CD-ROM on an Intel 865 (ICH5) motherboard with a SATA hard drive and SATA CD-ROM (set to Legacy mode in BIOS) causes Anaconda to report that it can't install from media. After Anaconda launches and the language and keyboard are chosen, some garbage characters are written to the screen and a dialogue box appears stating that it can't find media to install from and asks to select a media source [and eventually] a third-party driver. Selecting CD-ROM or Hard Drive do not work, even when selecting piix_ata driver. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt to install FC3T1 from a SATA CD-ROM 2. 3. Actual Results: Gets stuck at dialogue box stating that the installer can't find media to install from. Expected Results: Installs from CDs. Additional info:
SATA CD-ROM drives aren't currently supported by the kernel (AFAIK)
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
This bug has been automatically closed as part of a mass update. It had been in NEEDINFO state since July 2005. If this bug still exists in current errata kernels, please reopen this bug. There are a large number of inactive bugs in the database, and this is the only way to purge them. Thank you.