Re: Problems Installing FC1 to SATA Hard Disk

From: Brian Chase (networkr0_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 04/06/04

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To: as00000042@ordan.org, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    The kernel that installs with FC1 is pre-SATA embedded support. It's
    kind of messy, but if you want to fool with it, here's a link that
    discusses some workarounds to get you up and running.

            http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

    FC1 will update using Yum or Apt-Get to a kernel that does support SATA,
    but you've got to that point with another drive in the meantime, like i
    said, messy.

    My preference would be to wait for a distribution that has the newer
    kernel upon install, and sees the hardware right away and works out of
    the box. The stable version of Fedora Core 2 is probably only a few
    months out...fyi.

    BC

    Mike Insch (as00000042) wrote:

    > Hi All,
    >
    > I hope someone can help me here - I've trued Google, Looking in Bugzilla,
    > been on #fedora on IRC, and a few other places with no luck!
    >
    > In short, I am trying to install Fedora Core 1 onto a SATA Hard Disk. The
    > SATA HDD is the only Hard Disk in the system. The problem is that the
    > installer cannot see the disk to do the install!
    >
    > The relevant bits of the system spec are:
    > Motherboard: MSI KT6V-LSR (KT600 Chipset)
    > CPU: Athlon XP 2600+
    > RAM: 2x Crucial 512MiB Modules
    > HDD: Maxtor 6Y120M0 120GB SATA
    >
    > Does anyone have this configuration (or something with the same chipset at
    > least) working with FC1? If so, how did you get the installer to see the
    > SATA HDD?
    >
    > I'm not new to Linux, or to Red Hat's versions of Linux, so if there is a
    > bit of fiddling to be done to get this configuration working, that's OK.
    >
    > I know that FC2-test2 is out, but since this is for a "production"
    > machine, I'd like to avoid using it, unless that is my only option for the
    > moment. If test2 is definately the only option, then I can only use it if
    > I can "cleanly" upgrade to FC2-release when it hits the mirrors in a month
    > or two!
    >
    > Any help, advice, pointers or general extra info. would be appreciated. 

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