From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060103 Fedora/1.5-4 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: Hardware type: IBM T43 laptop install. dmesg snippet (after successful linux noprobe install): $ dmesg | grep ata BIOS-e820: 000000005fee0000 - 000000005fef5000 (ACPI data) Memory: 1553076k/1571712k available (1927k kernel code, 17360k reserved, 779k data, 176k init, 654208k highmem) ksign: Installing public key data Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 357k libata version 1.20 loaded. ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 1.05 ata: 0x170 IDE port busy ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0x18C0 irq 14 ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:5909 84:6003 85:7c69 86:1809 87:6003 88:203f ata1: dev 0 ATA-6, max UDMA/100, 78140160 sectors: LBA ata1(0): applying bridge limits ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 scsi0 : ata_piix EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7 EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. $ When booting from DVD or CD (for network boot), install hangs scanning for hardware to install to (and read from). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from boot media with system with ata_piix SATA based hardware 2. System will boot to the linux: install prompt. 3. Once you do this, it will scan for quite awhile unable to find the storage / CD subsystems once the install kernel is booted. 4. Either wait out the scan (long), or reboot and do the install with the 'noprobe' option and manually select your drivers. Actual Results: The install does not complete. Expected Results: The install should complete :) Additional info: Output of lsmod and lspci (In case you would like them) $ /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by tun 11073 1 radeon 96097 1 drm 66133 2 radeon ppdev 8645 0 autofs4 19013 1 rfcomm 34005 0 l2cap 23617 5 rfcomm bluetooth 44069 2 rfcomm,l2cap sunrpc 135933 1 ip_conntrack_netbios_ns 3009 0 ipt_REJECT 5441 1 xt_state 2241 4 ip_conntrack 49261 2 ip_conntrack_netbios_ns,xt_state nfnetlink 6489 1 ip_conntrack xt_tcpudp 3265 6 iptable_filter 3137 1 ip_tables 11529 1 iptable_filter x_tables 12613 4 ipt_REJECT,xt_state,xt_tcpudp,ip_tables dm_mirror 20113 0 dm_mod 50137 1 dm_mirror video 14917 0 ibm_acpi 25025 0 button 6609 0 battery 9285 0 ac 4933 0 ipv6 226849 14 lp 12297 0 parport_pc 25445 1 parport 34313 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc floppy 57861 0 nvram 8393 0 snd_intel8x0m 16077 1 ipw2200 84237 0 ieee80211 28297 1 ipw2200 uhci_hcd 28881 0 ehci_hcd 29645 0 ieee80211_crypt 6081 1 ieee80211 snd_intel8x0 30301 1 tg3 90053 0 snd_ac97_codec 83809 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_bus 2497 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_dummy 3781 0 snd_seq_oss 28993 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7105 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 47153 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 8909 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 45009 0 snd_mixer_oss 16321 3 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 76869 4 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 22597 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 50501 10 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer i2c_i801 8269 0 i2c_core 20289 1 i2c_i801 soundcore 9377 3 snd snd_page_alloc 10441 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm ext3 116041 3 jbd 52949 1 ext3 ahci 12229 0 ata_piix 9797 4 libata 53069 2 ahci,ata_piix sd_mod 16449 5 scsi_mod 124265 3 ahci,libata,sd_mod $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3) 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon Mobility M300] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11) 04:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 8d) 04:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05) $
Restart the installation, but pass the 'nostorage' option. The list of devices presented should show both an SATA and PATA controllers. Select the PATA controller first. Then select the SATA controller. By default the SATA module is loaded first, which grabs the SATA-PATA bridge and prevents the PATA driver from taking back the device. But if you load them in the right order, it is supposed to work. Let me know if that works.
Closing due to lack of response.