Description of problem: Anaconda can't find any harddrives on my vmware-image with fc6. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 7 RC DVD iso How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from DVD 2. Select install/upgrade 3. When selecting harddrive, it doesn't find anything Actual results: No harddrive is found Expected results: Should find harddrive with LVM-partitions and therefore be able to upgrade Additional info: lspci -v info from fc6 00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion- MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 01) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17 I/O ports at 1080 [size=128] Memory at e8800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 40018000 [disabled] [size=16K]
*** Bug 241482 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 155498 [details] dmesg
Created attachment 155499 [details] lspci -v
When creating your vmware virtual machine, do a custom setup and use the BusLogic SCSI adapter instead of the LSI Logic one. The LSI Logic one is the default and it's implementation in vmware confuses the Linux driver on a regular basis. This is a bug in vmware.