On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:30:52 -0500, Patrick Quinn <inkieminstrel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a Promise 579 SATA controller on my motherboard. It's not > currently recognized by the 2.6.10 kernel, but a patch is in the tree > for the 2.6.11 kernel. I currently have FC3 running off an IDE drive > on the system, and have verified that the patch works. > > Once the new version of the kernel is released, I'd like to install > Linux (preferably Fedora) on my SATA drive and ditch the IDE drive. > > What would be the proper way of doing this, without waiting for the > FC4 release? How do you install Fedora on a system whose hard drive > isn't detected by the default FC3 installer, but whose hard drive > works perfectly with the latest kernel patch? You need to change the installer kernel to use the new kernel. You will also have to change the kernel that will be installed to this new kernel. There is a thread from yesterday in either this list, fedora-devel or fedora-test that deals with creating updated FC3 discs. HTH. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Certified: 75% bastard, 42% of which is tard. http://www.thespark.com/bastardtest Now accepting personal mail for GMail invites.
