First of all, thanks very much to everyone who's working hard to get FC1 working on x86_64 - your efforts are much appreciated. I've been trying to install the fc1_x86_64 preview on my AMD Athlon 64 3200+ box, with MSI-6702 (a.k.a K8T Neo) m/b, which uses a VIA K8T800 chipset + VIA VT8237, and also has a Promise 20378 SATA controller. (c.f. http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/product_detail.asp?model=K... ). For the record I have 512MB DDR RAM and the graphics card is ATI 9600. I have one SATA disk attached to the VT8237 controller which has a single partition containing Windows XP Home. Leaving aside the fact that this seems to be a bad combination of hardware in terms of linux support, here is my story: I downloaded the http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/fc1_x86_64 tree to another machine on my home network and burnt the boot.iso to a CD. I tried a "linux rescue" installation so I could get a shell and use parted to resize the existing partition and add ext3/swap partitions for linux. I had no problem choosing HTTP installation and configuring network settings (except for Bug #112683), but after retrieving stage2.img anaconda says I have no hard disks and drops me to a shell, so it seems my VIA SATA controller is not being found/recognised for some reason. possibly because I was using the wrong device name, possibly because the controller's not being found. I downloaded the fedora/core/development/x86_64 (nee rawhide) tree instead and tried installing that, but got lots of error messages about slab corruption on the console and so abandoned the development version and rebooted. I installed an old 3.2GB IDE disk I had lying around, to try and install fc1_x86_64 onto that (in order to compile a working via_sata.o and then move the system to the SATA disk) which worked to a point, but when anaconda was about to partition the IDE disk it managed to completely destroy the disk so that even the BIOS can't see it (the disk was old and I suspect it was about to fail anyway - this is unlikely to be anything to do with FC1). This left me back where I started, with anaconda not finding my SATA disk. At this point I'm about to borrow another old IDE disk, am downloading the http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/fc1_x86_64/jmforbes/ tree (which looks like the latest one, is that right?) to try to install tonight, and will also ensure my BIOS is up to date (possibly not). So, my first question is has anyone successfully installed fc1_x86_64 on an MSI mobo? The list archives seem to indicate it's been tried on ASUS, Tyan and others, but no explicit mention of MSI or K8T Neo. Why didn't the VIA SATA controller get found? I was under the impression (thanks to http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2003-November/msg01216.html and other posts) that the fc1_x86_64 preview included support for VIA and promise SATA controllers. (Note that the disk might be found if my BIOS is out-of-date and I flash it tonight, the latest version contains fixes for both the VIA and Promise controllers) Should I be trying the /fc1_x86_64/jmforbes/ tree? What about the /fc1_x86_64/preview/ tree? What is the correct device name for the first SATA disk likely to be, /dev/sda? It's possible I just failed to call parted with the right name! Should anaconda have found the existing windows partition, even though it's on a SATA disk? (I thought the answer to this was yes, and if anaconda can't find it then neither will parted, is that right?) Sorry this feedback is a little incomplete, but I can't remember exactly what I've tried so far (e.g. can't remember what device names i did and didn't try with parted) and wanted to send this before I try a third set of installation images. I'd be very grateful for any help or advice, or even flames if anything I've done stands out as particularly stupid (except not flashing the BIOS earlier - I know that's stupid :-) jon http://www.mintel.com London Office: Mintel International Group Ltd (Mintel) 18-19 Long Lane London EC1A 9PL UK Tel: 020 7606 4533 Fax: 020 7606 5932 Chicago Office: Mintel International Group Ltd (Mintel) 213 West Institute Place Suite #208 Chicago IL 60610 USA Tel: 312 932 0400 Fax: 312 932 0469 Notice ******** This email may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. It must not be used by, or its contents copied or disclosed to, persons other than the addressee. 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