Nicolas Mailhot wrote :
I installed a rawhide (FC4->rawhide) system on a nforce4 mobo a
few
months ago. The tricks I used were :
1. sata disks on sii controller (not the nforce one)
2. pata cd drive (sata dvd would fail once anaconda tried to reload it)
3. no winraid, but linux software raid on lvm
I'd have expected the situation to get better with FC5 :(
Thanks for the tip, but I just tried putting the sata drive on the
sata_sil controller (as a single drive, "JBOD") and the FC5 installer
still doesn't find any drive after having loaded the sata_sil module.
I can boot from the sata drive on that controller too, but again, even
after loading sata_sil from the initrd, it doesn't find the drive,
complains about /dev/root not found etc. and panics.
Seems like I'm really stuck as none of sata_nv, sata_sil or the normal ata
seem to work with recent kernels.
Any other pointers to stuff to test (even kernel patches, updated modules
etc.) would be very welcome.
Matthias
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