From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; compaq) Description of problem: The menu that existed in RH70 and prior is not accessible if you enter "linux expert" mode of installation. This appears to be dependent on whether it can find your cd-rom or not. So you end up with the installer finding your CD-Rom, but not being able to find your hard drives (in the case of the EISA based Compaq Array controllers where the address muste be specified). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from floppy on a PL1500 with an Original Smart Array controller (any EISA based card will do which you will have to specify the memory address). This controller contains the drives to perform installation to. CD-Rom is located on embedded SCSI. 2. Enter "linux expert" mode during installation 3. Continue install. Actual Results: Installer aborts because it could not find any drives to install to. Expected Results: Installer should have showm me the "Add SCSI or Network Card" listing. I should then be able to add options when loading the cpqarray driver. Additional info: It appears that since the installer can find the CD-Rom, that it doesn't bother to show the "Add SCSI or Netowrk Card" menu. This seems to be the same in RH71 and RH72.
To add drivers for ISA cards, you have to boot with 'linux isa' as of Red Hat Linux 7.1 and later as documented in the Installation Guide.
That's very nice, I'll add it to my installation notes. I don't understand why that functionality isn't available in (i.e. was removed from) both "linux dd" and "linux expert". This has caused many aborted installations over the last several months. I am even sure that some gave up on trying.