Mounting problem: SATA disk under FC6

[Ian Astley]

On 11 Jul 2007, at 3:20, Tim wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 11:44 +0100, tokyoi at mac.com wrote:
>> POST recognizes the PCI card for the SATA drive (SiI 3112A) but  
>> returns
>> a "Drive not found" message for each of the two channels on the card.
>> Pressing F4 or Ctrl-S, as indicated in the documentation) has no  
>> effect,
>> the boot process continues straight to the GRUB screen. Hence I am  
>> not
>> able to configure the card in the boot-up process.
>
> Is that a BIOS configuration thing that's not working?  If so, are you
> using a USB keyboard?  I've found a few PCs are difficult to diddle  
> with
> pre-boot options when you use a USB keyboard, it's not always noticed.

Thanks, Tim. Yes, my PC doesn't mix pre-boot and USB keyboards, so I  
have an old PS2 keyboard attached as well and I use that for BIOS  
settings and the like.

I am going to follow Ed's helpful suggestion to use mkinitrd, though  
it will be a short while before I get a window of opportunity to do  
it. I'll keep the list posted.

Best wishes,

Ian