On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 16:14 -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:59 -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: > > > >> Ok nice to be right back in the EXACT same position I was in several > >> years ago regarding this motherboard and installing FC. I think it was > >> FC3 that this first became an issue, but I was able to work around it > >> and install FC. So now, I tried to install FC6/7 and I yet to find a way > >> to get it installed. > >> > >> So now it has been a year or so without being able to run Fedora/CentOS. > >> Please help as I really don't want to use Ubunto and especially not Suse. > >> > >> Anyone have an issue installing on the Asus board? > >> > >> Trying to install causes a seg fault when dealing with the hard drives > >> either in BIOS setting compatibility mode or SATA mode. Anaconda shows > >> the hard drives as "/dev/mapper" or something like that, but as you > >> know, they should appear as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. All I ever see is a > >> single "/dev/mapper" which suggests that Anaconda sees a raid array even > >> after I fdisk the drives. Of coarse this also rendered the system > >> unusable after the seg fault resulted in a reboot. > >> > > > > /dev/mapper is used whenever you tell the system to use LVM. It you > > do NOT use LVM-based partitions, then /dev/sda and /dev/sdb will work. > > > > > True here but we might not be on the same page. I do not have a choice > but to use /dev/mapper as anaconda determined this and it is not the > case. Did you tell anaconda to use a custom disk layout? It defaults to LVM, but you can tell it otherwise. Note that I've not tried the custom layouts with F7 yet, so I may be talking through my hat. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
