Description of problem: The installer cannot start partitioning because it claims that no hard drives are installed. The drive is visible outside of the installer however. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 9-Beta How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install a hard drive without a valid partition table. dd works for this task. 2.Load up the installer and proceed to the partitioning section. Actual results: Anaconda will not continue because it can't see the drive. Expected results: Offer to initialize and partition the disk. Additional info: By dropping to a console, I was able to create the partition table using parted. Only after rebooting the system, anaconda could properly detect the drive and proceed with the installation. I blanked the drive again using dd and was able to reproduce the error. This is possibly related to bug 438985, but I didn't want to hijack the bug.
If you switch to a tty and run lshal, do you see the drive in the output?
Yes, the drive does show up. I am able to manually partition it, then Anaconda likes it. Fortunately, I was not able to reproduce this behaviour on the preview release. I was given the option to initialize the disk as expected.