Etanisla Lopez-Ortiz wrote:
What I have:
home-brew with 1 SATA hard drive and 1 SATA optical drive
What I don't have:
FC7 installed
(even after trying "linux askmethod all-ide-generic nodmraid")
It is my (flawed) understanding that the sata driver that FC7 uses on
install doesn't play nice with systems with multiple SATA devices, or on
systems with SATA/PATA devices. The last I read, was to install FC7 off
a large (4G+) usb drive, a network install, an iso mounted on a FAT32
partition,
The iso doesn't have to be on fat32, nor even mounted {from memory} for
a "hard drive" install. You do need to have a partition large enough to
fit the iso that you aren't going to format during the install /
upgrade. I'm guessing with sata, your system is reasonably modern, and
has enough ram ?
or onto the hard drive while connected to another computer
and then placing the drive back in the original computer and praying it
all works well.
None of those options are available to me. Google keeps pointing me back
to the same Fedora Forum posts of which I have already summarized above.
Should I stick with my working FC6, or are there possibilities I haven't
run across yet?
Have you been trying to upgrade or install fresh ?
Can you post from FC6, and then form F7 rescue if it will work, the
fdisk -l info ?
Or a smolt id if you have/would like to make one.
Also the output of lspci would be helpful to find out what chipsets your
motherboard uses.
DaveT.
