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On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:51:35AM -0300, Ronaldo Alves Pinto Nagem wrote:
> 
> This is an off topic question, but I was wondering someone have faced this
> problem before and could give me a hint.
> I am trying to install Fedora Core 5 into a new PC, with ASUS motherboard
> PC5VDC-X and a single SATA II (80 GByte - Samsung) hard drive.
> During linux installation Fedora (more precisely Anaconda) does not
> recognize my SATA II hard drive and prompts the following message:
> 

the p5vdc-x has a via vt8237a southbridge - which should be fixed as
of 2.6.18:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6925

I believe using "insmod=ide-generic" as a boot option will help, but
then you'll need to be sure the ide-generic module is in your initrd.

No linux distribution will get around this problem, unless the patch
was grafted into their boot disc kernel.

Alternatively, FC6test3 will have the fix:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205898

and yet more information:

http://marc2.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-devel-list&m=115694799810621

Good luck,
Tim

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