From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040930 Firefox/0.10 Description of problem: When I try to install fc3-test2, the installer tells me "no hard drives were detected". Attempting to load my own driver doesn't lead me to any obvious choices. Fedora Core 2 installed without a hitch on this machine (numerous times) I checked the media, all 4 cds passed. I will attach my dmesg output (from FC2) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Load FC3-test2 installer 2.Begin install 3. Actual Results: Installer says "no hard drives detected" Expected Results: Detect hard drives and continue with install Additional info:
Created attachment 104743 [details] dmesg output from FC2
Can you switch to tty2 at the point at which it says "no hard drives detected" and grab /tmp/anaconda.log and /tmp/syslog and attach them?
Created attachment 104760 [details] anaconda.log
Created attachment 104761 [details] syslog
I am having the same issue on an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard with the NForce3-250 chipset: NFORCE3-250: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:08.0 NFORCE3-250: chipset revision 162 What I think is needed is the sata_nv driver which is missing in the Fedora Core 3 Test 2 installer code. I'm in the process of learning how to make my own driver update disk so I can install to an SATA hard drive. With a fully updated Core 3 Test 2 system using the 603 kernel, I can definitely boot to an SATA drive. But I cannot install (from scratch) to an SATA drive without the driver. What I did was install to a drive connected to IDE0 (the classic PATA connector.) Then after fully updating the new system to the 603 kernel, I fitted a HighPoint RocketHead 100 Serial ATA converter to that drive and plugged it into the SATA1 controller on the motherboard with an SATA cable. Here are my messages: ... nv_sata: Primary device added nv_sata: Primary device added ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:4b01 84:4003 85:3469 86:0801 87:4003 88:003f ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 117231408 sectors: ata1(0): applying bridge limits ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 scsi0 : sata_nv ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000) scsi1 : sata_nv Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD600BB-00CA Rev: 17.0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 117231408 512-byte hdwr sectors (60022 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 ...
This appears to be a board with the same SATA controller as my MSI K8N Neo Platinum. I missed the model of Neil's board if it was stated. I read the logs he attached and they are similar to my own. I have started work on a driver disk and posted the contents at: http://www.cat.pdx.edu/~mattw/sata_nv/ I'm wondering why sata_nv is not included in the boot.iso kernel but is included in the kernel rpm. Is it an oversight or is something wrong with it?
Oversight, now corrected.
CD #1 boots from isolinux and that uses an initrd. Don't forget to add the modules to that initrd. That was corrected too, right? I unpacked my initrd image from the 603 kernel and these files are among those in the lib directory: lib ..... lib/sata_nv.ko lib/libata.ko .... lib/scsi_mod.ko ....
I know how to make use of a driver disk, but I have no idea how to create one. What are the chances of someone (Matt W., perhaps???) making an sata_nv driver disk for use with FC3 Test 3?
D'oh, I guess Matt's driver disk, if created for FC3T2, would still work with FC3T3. (Right?)
Fixed in RAWHIDE as of 10/13 in kernel 2.6.8-1.610. I attempted to set resolution to RAWHIDE, but don't have sufficient permissions.
hi, i just tried fc3t3, and it does not detect the sata drive. i have a motherboard called lanparty 250gb, also nforce3. when starting with noprobe, i still do not get a choice to load the nvidia sata (sata_nv) device. in which way was this fixed? perhaps i am missing something? all i can guess is that perhaps the sata_nv is now a built module, but then it does not get detected/loaded? i looked in the log page (alt-f3, i think) and it did detect the controller for both nforce3 PATA and SATA, but for both of them it reported "(unknown)" at the end of the line. other hardware reported what looked like a module name at the end of the line in parenthesis. i am not sure how to take a full log during install and pull it out, without network, etc. perhaps i can use a mounted drive, but that may take me a little while. let me know if that would help. thanks! carlos puchol - cpg at users dot sourceforge.net
I have successfully installed FC3, so I think this can be marked FIXED. Thanks!
And I agree, I installed FC3 to an SATA drive and subsequently added a second SATA drive. All seems well.