I've got a machine with an IDE CD-ROM and ZIP disk, but with 2 SCSI hard-disks. I've started a network (NFS) install with a driver disk (needed for the network card). When the installation gets to the point of partitioning the disks, it will abort complaining it can't find any partitionable disks. The problem is that the aic7xxx module isn't loaded, even though C-A-F3 says there was a hint to load it. I know for sure the driver disk was loaded, because the network card couldn't be found without it, and it was found automatically when I booted up with `linux dd'. The solution I've found was to C-A-F2, `modprobe aic7xxx', then proceed to the installation.
What is your network card?
I had the same problem. I was doing an NFS install. I have an IDE-CDROM and a SCSI HD. The Installer would forget to load my SCSI driver. My network card (SMC EtherPower II) uses the epic100 driver from the driver disk. My SCSI controller (Tekram DC-390U2W, symbios 53c895 chipset) uses the ncr53c8xx (or the sym53c8xx) driver, also from the driver disk. I tried various combinations of "expert" and "dd" on the bootdisk's "pre-boot command-line" and using F2 to load the driver disk. My network card driver loaded fine everytime, but I could never find my SCSI driver. I also tried using the updates disk. It didn't help me with this problem. I simply did C-A-F2 and loaded the sym53c8xx driver manually with modprobe. This worked okay for the install, but no initrd was created to load my SCSI driver on my HD nor the Installer created bootdisk.
QA needs to be able to reproduce this issue. What hardware do you have in your system so we can attempt to duplicate?
verified this issue ... thanks for the report!
This bug is fixed internally. You found a perfectly adequate workaround, and this bug won't be in the next release. Thanks for the report.
Verified this as resolved.