On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:27:32 -0500, John Pearson <jpearson42@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 09:39 pm, Billy Tallis wrote: > > This is the right place to ask such questions. I would guess that > > there are just not any other people with your problem on the list now. > > The first step would be to submit a bug report about the installation > > disc. FC4 will probably have the necessary drivers, if that is the > > Thank you very much for taking time to answer. I did trace down a bug report, > but it is closed at this point in time. > > In point of fact, if I can download the next update of the the kernel > 2.6.10-something, then the problem goes away. Which means to me that if i > had an iso with the latest revision of kernel, then the system would work. > and that is why I was wondering about that. > > I loaded FC2 and it had no problem with identifying an ide drive as an ide > drive. But it does not support the ethernet chipset on the motherboard > [sigh]. > > However, with the sata drive formated by FC2, the FC3 installer finds it > without problem. I did the install of FC3, but the 2.6.9 kernel panics when > the handoff arrives. So... I am doing a minimum installation on an ide > drive with FC3. I will do an immediate kernel update, rsync the sata drive > to the ide drive, and then edit grub.conf. [All of this with my fingers > crossed. ;-) Of course, I am open to suggestions, still. > > Thanks again. > > -jp > Since it seems that you will not have a stable system anyways, you might as well get FC4 test 1 and see if that works. If not, then a bug should not have been closed or a new one needs to be opened. Good luck.
