64-bit FC3 on nForce4 motherboards

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Brian Stretch wrote:

>
> The nForce4 chipset provides its own SATA controller.  The Neo4 does 
> have a Silicon Image SATA controller in addition to that but I have it 
> disabled in the BIOS (there is no hardware jumper to disable it).  The 
> rescue DVD mentions loading a sata_nv driver or something like that.
>
> I could try enabling the Silicon Image controller and moving the drive 
> to that, but I'm not sure that's wise?
>
> I also have an IDE drive plugged in... hmm, could that be causing 
> problems?  In my old system the SATA drive was on a Promise controller 
> and the IDE on a VIA chipset controller.
>
Yes, you are right... Newer kernels have support for a driver called 
sata_nv.ko, even plain vanilla 2.6.10 has support for it. Hmm... since 
you are able to boot in rescue mode, I'd avise you to try to boot and 
then boot in rescue allow the installer to check your installations and 
to mount the partitions, then at the prompt chroot to /mnt/sysimage and 
check /var/log/messages for any SATA references (or 'grep sata 
/var/log/messages') to see what may be going on... If you do see 
something, you can dump the output to a file (with the '>' modifier) and 
post that back.