<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.0.6556.0"> <TITLE>Problem: FC3 anaconda load kernel sata modules in wrong order </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> I encounter a problem to install FC3 on one of our machine, the machine has two SATA hard drives connected directly to motherboard which will use the ata_piix kernel module, and two other SATA hard drives connected through a Promise SATA card which is d</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">riven by sata_promise kernel module.</FONT></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> The problem is: FC3 anaconda loads sata_promise</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">module before ata_piix module by default, and this lead to the fact that sda and sdb are</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">assigned</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">to two hard drives connected</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">on</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Promise card</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">, then after machine successfully installed, a reboot it fails</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and reports</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">no operation system found</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> error</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">.</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Because</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">machines will boot from hard drives connected directly to motherboard</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> (set in BIOS), it can not boot from</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> drives connected to a Promise SATA PCI card.</FONT></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Anyone know if it is possible to specify the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">kernel</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">module loading sequence for anaconda</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> during initial installation stage? </FONT></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Thanks.</FONT></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> --Guolin</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P> </BODY> </HTML>