Description of problem: After booting from Fedora 9 Preview DVD Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from installation DVD 2. Select "Install or upgrade an existing system" 3. Choose the language 4. Choose the type of keyboard Actual results: It asks what type of media contains the packages to bo installed. When I select "Local CD/DVD", this message appears: "Unable to find any devices of the type needed for this installation type." and offers to select the driver from a list or to use a driver disk. Expected results: Begin the installation from the DVD without asking anything. Additional info: This message appears in third console: ERROR : got to setupCdrom without a CD device In the fourth console, I can see the ata_piix module detecting the 4 IDE ports, but neither the DVD drive nor the hard disk appear in this messages. The DVD drive is a HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H60L (SATA) connected to the second port of the first IDE controller, which is a Intel 8280IIR/IO/IH (ICH94/DO/DH) (uses ata_piix). Smolt profile: http://www.smolts.org/show?uuid=pub_e5b906a3-c30d-4631-8605-45a9c0bcd7de
If you switch to console 2 with ctrl-alt-f2 you can run the 'dmesg' command to list all of the kernel messages. Can you capture those to a USB key and attach them?
Created attachment 303616 [details] dmesg from Fedora 9 Live CD
There is no shell in any of the consoles to run dmesg from. But if it helps, I've attached dmesg from a Fedora 9 Live CD (which failed with /dev/root not found).
sleeping ATA links: ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 621 SControl 300) ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 611 SControl 300) This is fixed in rawhide now. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 436099 ***