Description of problem: Booting DVD install disk without any special arguments in a VMware virtual machine with a virtual scsi disk fails due to lack of ability for anaconda to "see" the (virtual) SCSI disk. If at the initial boot prompt, I enter "linux noprobe" and then select the "buslogic SCSI" controller, anaconda proceeds successfully. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC6 T3 (pre-DVD) How reproducible: Easily reproduced with steps below. Requires VMWare Server Console v1.01 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a VMware virtual machine with a virtual SCSI disk. 2. Install FC6 within such a virtual machine. 3. Actual results: The dialog to select disk/partitioning options fails -- no disks found. Expected results: Successful dialog to select disk and partitioning options. Additional info: At a minimum, it should be easy to select a boot-time option for using a SCSI disk for initial system installation. It appears that manually loading the buslogic SCSI driver is all that was necessary to get a good result.
to install fc6 to a vmware server use the fc5 rescue cd .iso and install via an online mirror(http) and add the buslogic scsi device driver.
I can confirm this with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server and VMware Server 1.0.2. Also seems to be duplicate of #196979
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 196979 ***