On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 16:57 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > If your CD/DVD is on a SATA controller (yes, it happens), then you may > have to load the specific driver for your card. > > > I've also tried to run some of the Fedora 8 live dvd's (they work on my > > laptops). But after starting to run and unpack things, it drops out into > > a bash shell prompt saying it can't find the root filesystem. > > > > If I were to try to install from a USB hard drive, should I just copy > > the DVD contents to a folder on the hard drive or leave it as an iso > > image? > > Create a VFAT filesystem on the hard drive and leave the F8 stuff as an > ISO image in that filesystem. > > > Any suggestions on how to proceed would be appreciated. > > Can you be a bit more specific on exactly how your system is set up? > What motherboard are you using? What kind of interface does your CD/DVD > drive use? What hard disk controller is it? That sort of thing. On > one of my Opterons (partial output of "lspci -v"): > > > 00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1) (prog-if 8a > [Master SecP PriP]) > Subsystem: Unknown device f458:b000 > Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0 > [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) > [disabled] [size=8] > [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) > [disabled] [size=1] > [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) > [disabled] [size=8] > [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) > [disabled] [size=1] > I/O ports at f000 [size=16] > Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 > Kernel driver in use: pata_amd > Kernel modules: pata_amd, ata_generic > > 00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller > (rev a1) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO]) > Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device b002 > Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21 > I/O ports at 09f0 [size=8] > I/O ports at 0bf0 [size=4] > I/O ports at 0970 [size=8] > I/O ports at 0b70 [size=4] > I/O ports at d800 [size=16] > Memory at f5107000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] > Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 > Capabilities: [b0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ > Queue=0/2 Enable- > Capabilities: [cc] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable- Fixed+ > Kernel driver in use: sata_nv > Kernel modules: sata_nv, ata_generic > > 00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller > (rev a1) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO]) > Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device b002 > Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20 > I/O ports at 09e0 [size=8] > I/O ports at 0be0 [size=4] > I/O ports at 0960 [size=8] > I/O ports at 0b60 [size=4] > I/O ports at c400 [size=16] > Memory at f5106000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] > Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 > Capabilities: [b0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ > Queue=0/2 Enable- > Capabilities: [cc] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable- Fixed+ > Kernel driver in use: sata_nv > Kernel modules: sata_nv, ata_generic > > Now granted, both the hard drive and the CD/DVD are on the IDE interface > (this is a labrat machine...I don't need SATA speeds), but it installed > with no problem. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - > - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - > - - > - Dyslexics of the world: UNTIE! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is some output from /sbin/lspci -v: 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VAX Mainboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20 [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] I/O ports at a800 [size=16] Capabilities: <access denied> The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-K8VM800M (K8 Triton series) that takes a 64-bit Athlon cpu. There is an ide DVD/CD burner drive and an ide hard drive. What else do you need to know? Rick B.
