Description of problem: The Fedora 9 installer does not detect the hard drive in the MacBook. I did a install through F8 also and when booting the F9 kernel does not detect the hard drive. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 9 Beta How reproducible: Get a MacBook and try to install Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert DVD 2. Boot 3. Try to install Actual results: Drive not detected Expected results: Drive to be detected Additional info: I also had the same issue when trying to compile the 2.6.25-rc5 kernel on F8. It would compile file but upon a reboot it would not boot because it could not detect the drive.
What kind of macbook? And what messages does the driver print when it loads?
It is a two month old Santa Rosa (MacBook 4,1). The messages all say that the different partitions cannot be mounted, but I do not see any other errors. It has something to do with the sata driver I think. I am here at your disposal to try anything.
This is still an issue with the FC9 Preview Release.
This problem is still present in the 2.6.25 kernel downloaded from kernel.org http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10512
You should be able to switch to console 2 using ctrl-alt-f2 and run the dmesg command to see the entire kernel log. If you write that output to a USB stick you can attach it to this bug report.
Created attachment 303636 [details] dmesg dump from FC9 installer
Created attachment 303804 [details] lspci -nvv dump from fc9 installer
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10512
Try adding "pci=nomsi" to the kernel boot options.
It look like this is a kernel bug related to SIDPR, we are currently testing patches to resolve it http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10512
What are the odds of committing the patches from the kernel.org bugzilla to the FC9 final kernel so that we can have a working installer for laptops using this chipset? Thanks
(In reply to comment #11) > What are the odds of committing the patches from the kernel.org bugzilla to the > FC9 final kernel so that we can have a working installer for laptops using this > chipset? > The odds are good if we can get a final patch. This bug is on the blocker list now...
Excellent you guys are now officially my heroes :) Also it looks like the guys at kernel.org are almost ready for an official patch too
There is a final patch on the kernel bugzilla page now and it is being committed to the kernel. The bug is officially closed there. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10512
Patch in 2.6.25-13