From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 Description of problem: Hard drive install incomplete on mixed IDE/scsi disk array. During a hard drive ISO install, scsi drivers are not loaded before Disk Druid is instantiated therefore rendering any scsi disks invisible. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Select install from Hard Drive 2.Give ISO location to installer 3.Disk Druid pops up but scsi drives invisible Actual Results: Disk Druid does not show scsi drives so selecting any paritions on scsi drives impossible. Expected Results: scsi drivers should have loaded before Disk Druid. Additional info: should be an easy fix since the CD install Does The Right Thing.
What SCSI hardware is on your system?
Sorry. I forgot this part. I have two scsi controllers: and initio-based IWill adapter, and an NCR53c810. Here is my /etc/modules.conf after the successful install: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias scsi_hostadapter sym53c8xx alias eth0 8139too alias scsi_hostadapter1 initio alias sb emu10k1 options scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x0112 My /var partition is on the NCR adapter. jack
Thanks will assign to an engineer.
If you run lsmod on tty2, which SCSI driver are you not seeing loaded? Also, what are the contents of /tmp/modules.conf during the install?
Hi, Jeremy. Sorry for the long delay getting back to you. I think I have figured out how to do a hard drive install properly with my system. When I select the Hard Drive install and get to the screen to choose the directory with the ISOs, instead I have to first hit F2 twice to get to the screen to load the driver disk. Once I have the initio driver loaded, then all the partitions can be seen. Unfortunately for some unknown reason when I tried it this time, the installer is bombing, though: when I feed it the directory with the ISOs, it just keeps coming back saying that there are no RH ISOs in the directory. I downloaded them fresh today and the md5sums check out so I have no clue what this is about. But that would be another bug :-)) As for bug 65229, I think we can close this one. However, it might be an idea to highlight the fact that a user with a scsi adapter that is not one of the three on the install floppy is going to have to use a driver disk before choosing the ISO directory to allow Anaconda/Disk Druid to see all their partitions. Oh, BTW, there is no way to get to a console on tty2 since that function has been deactivated in RH 7.3 Anaconda :-(( thanks for your time, Jack Bowling jbinpg
You can get to tty2, just not until the second stage has loaded. As to needing a driver disk, you always need a driver disk if it's not one of the "major" drivers that is supported for installation.
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