Fedora Installation Does not see Hard Disk drives

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Greetings Russel ,

Russell Harrison wrote:

> Try booting fedora in rescue mode.  At the first screen when you boot 
> the cd
> type "rescue" and hit enter.  This will boot a text based single user 
> mode
> for you to look around.  You should be able to see your drives there, and
> you can get more information to give the list to help you out.


Don't bet on that . Btw am afraid that the OP problem is not 
specifically release
related ( for example Fedora Core has it , Redhat Enterprise Linux 
hasn't it .).
The only time i have had a similar to the original poster problem was when
i tried to use hard disk on a Promise Controller ( PDC20267) . You see in
this case you must have an initrd file that loads the apropriate module ,
if not then nothing is going to happen no matter what . 
  To that effect i would ask the OP if the hard disks in question are 
directly
connected to the motherboard or through any kind of controller ( be it
an old Promise one , a SATA one , a SCSI , or whatever )  ?


Kostas