Description of problem: During initial stage of installation, the kernel does recognize the VIA VT6420 SATA controller, but it seems to ignore the disk (saying something like "unsupported device, drive ignored", so the installer says "no disks available" later. After installing a minimal version of fedora-devel and downgrading to latest FC3 kernel, it still works, so I assume it's been fixed in later kernels. I'd very much like to see updated install images available. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-1.667 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot FC3 x86_64 CD or DVD 2. Start installation Actual results: No SATA hard drives are detected. Expected results: They should be detected. Additional info: Output from working kernel: $ rpm -q kernel kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.x86_64 $ cat /var/log/dmesg [...] SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 1.10 loaded. sata_via version 1.0 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 sata_via(0000:00:0f.0): routed to hard irq line 4 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC000 ctl 0xC402 bmdma 0xD000 irq 169 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC800 ctl 0xCC02 bmdma 0xD008 irq 169 ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:407f ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 312581808 sectors: lba48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi0 : sata_via ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:407f ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 312581808 sectors: lba48 ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi1 : sata_via isa bounce pool size: 16 pages Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160827AS Rev: 3.42 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 > Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160827AS Rev: 3.42 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdb: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdb: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb: sdb1 sdb2 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 $ /sbin/lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0238 00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 1238 00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 2238 00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3238 00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4238 00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 5238 00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 7238 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800 South] 00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device a238 00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device c238 00:03.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device d238 00:03.2 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device e238 00:03.3 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device f238 00:07.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown device 1fa7 (rev 07) 00:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800 South] 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0141 (rev a2) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 15)
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As I wrote: there's no problem with current FC3 kernel. The problem is with the kernel on the installation ISO image(s). That's why I asked about updated ISO images, because I couldn't find any nor instructions for creating my own.
no, no updated isos, and I'm not aware of any howto's. It would actually be useful though for such situations. I'll sit down the installer folks some time and see if we can hash out something. In the meantime, try FC4 ?
Too bad. Guess it's a WONTFIX then? ;) I'll try FC5.
yeah, respinning a tree is non-trivial aparently. Hopefully in FC6 time, we'll be able to offer just an updated boot.iso, with a kernel update on it, but there's still quite a bit of groundwork to do. In the meantime, if FC5test has the same problem, we'd love to hear about it. Looking at the code in the current FC5 tree, there is support for the vt6420 controller, so hopefully you'll be all set with that. If it doesn't work, feel free to reopen this, and adjust the bug to 'devel'. Thanks.