Fedora 8 64-bit Athlon Install- Can't find CD/DVD Drives?
Rick Bilonick
rab at nauticom.net
Wed Jan 23 05:53:28 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 16:57 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> If your CD/DVD is on a SATA controller (yes, it happens), then you may
> have to load the specific driver for your card.
>
> > I've also tried to run some of the Fedora 8 live dvd's (they work on my
> > laptops). But after starting to run and unpack things, it drops out into
> > a bash shell prompt saying it can't find the root filesystem.
> >
> > If I were to try to install from a USB hard drive, should I just copy
> > the DVD contents to a folder on the hard drive or leave it as an iso
> > image?
>
> Create a VFAT filesystem on the hard drive and leave the F8 stuff as an
> ISO image in that filesystem.
>
> > Any suggestions on how to proceed would be appreciated.
>
> Can you be a bit more specific on exactly how your system is set up?
> What motherboard are you using? What kind of interface does your CD/DVD
> drive use? What hard disk controller is it? That sort of thing. On
> one of my Opterons (partial output of "lspci -v"):
>
>
> 00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1) (prog-if 8a
> [Master SecP PriP])
> Subsystem: Unknown device f458:b000
> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
> [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> [disabled] [size=8]
> [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable)
> [disabled] [size=1]
> [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> [disabled] [size=8]
> [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable)
> [disabled] [size=1]
> I/O ports at f000 [size=16]
> Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> Kernel driver in use: pata_amd
> Kernel modules: pata_amd, ata_generic
>
> 00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller
> (rev a1) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
> Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device b002
> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
> I/O ports at 09f0 [size=8]
> I/O ports at 0bf0 [size=4]
> I/O ports at 0970 [size=8]
> I/O ports at 0b70 [size=4]
> I/O ports at d800 [size=16]
> Memory at f5107000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> Capabilities: [b0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
> Queue=0/2 Enable-
> Capabilities: [cc] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable- Fixed+
> Kernel driver in use: sata_nv
> Kernel modules: sata_nv, ata_generic
>
> 00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller
> (rev a1) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
> Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device b002
> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
> I/O ports at 09e0 [size=8]
> I/O ports at 0be0 [size=4]
> I/O ports at 0960 [size=8]
> I/O ports at 0b60 [size=4]
> I/O ports at c400 [size=16]
> Memory at f5106000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> Capabilities: [b0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
> Queue=0/2 Enable-
> Capabilities: [cc] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable- Fixed+
> Kernel driver in use: sata_nv
> Kernel modules: sata_nv, ata_generic
>
> Now granted, both the hard drive and the CD/DVD are on the IDE interface
> (this is a labrat machine...I don't need SATA speeds), but it installed
> with no problem.
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> - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens at internap.com -
> - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com -
> - -
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Here is some output from /sbin/lspci -v:
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
(prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VAX Mainboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
[virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
[virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
I/O ports at a800 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-K8VM800M (K8 Triton series) that takes
a 64-bit Athlon cpu. There is an ide DVD/CD burner drive and an ide hard
drive.
What else do you need to know?
Rick B.
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