Yeah, F7 uses the SATA on the ATA stuff now, and has sdx for the drives. But, like we both said... no luck seeing the drives on the Soekris.
I have nothing but complete contempt for FC6... it was the bastard child and cost me hundreds of hours of grief on a project for the US DOT, so I don't really consider it a healthy alternative. Jim McBeath wrote: > I tried installing Fedora 7 onto a 2.5in hard drive on my net4801, > and ran into the same problem with it not recognizing the disk. > PXE boot using the FC7 installer works fine, right up to the point > where it looks for the disks to ask you where you want to install, > at which point it finds nothing. Same thing when I installed FC7 > onto the disk in another computer, then moved it into the net4801; > it booted up to the point where it tried to mount root, at which > point it died saying it could not find it. > > Apparently there was a change to the disk system in FC7, because IDE > disks that used to be labeled hda etc are now labeled sda etc (see > <http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=809907&postcount=3>). > I spent a few hours on this and couldn't figure out how to make > FC7 see the disk in the net4801. Finally gave up and installed > FC6 with no problems. > > -- > Jim > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 05:50:53PM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:50:53 -0700 >> From: Chris Cappuccio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: R Bruce Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Soekris] [Fwd: Re: Fedora 7 no drives visible] >> >> can't you just pxe boot the OS and install like normal? >> this is sheer madness >> >> R Bruce Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Because private mail was not what I expected from the list... just in >>> case someone else has the same question... >>> >>> -- >>> "Suppose you were an idiot... >>> And suppose you were a member of Congress... >>> But I repeat myself." >>> - Mark Twain >>> >>> =========================================================== >>> R Bruce Hoffman >>> >>> >>> >>> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:19:32 -0400 >>> From: R Bruce Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: Kannaiyan Natesan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Subject: Re: [Soekris] Fedora 7 no drives visible >>> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070615) >>> >>> Honestly... no. I am unable to share the details of that information... >>> it's considered proprietary. And there is very little "truely" relevant >>> information currently available on the web. >>> >>> Off the record... build an FC4 machine. Three partitions. First >>> partition full root and install. Boot. Mount second partition as >>> /duplicate, copy foundation to /duplicate. Screw with grub config to >>> bring up /duplicate as root (boot into second partition.) Scrub to small >>> system with essential services on /duplicate. Reboot back into first >>> partition. Construct image files on third partition. Mount image file in >>> loop device. Copy /duplicate parts to the mounted image file. Unmount. >>> Copy image to CF card. Grub up the CF card. Pull out the CF card. Mount >>> in Soekris. >>> >>> But this is just the beginning. You need to mess with the init.d scripts >>> and Red Hat has specific ways of booting read only and shutdown's are a >>> problem as is making ramdisk images available for certain writeable >>> directories during normal operations. >>> >>> >>> Kannaiyan Natesan wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Bruce, >>>> >>>> Can you please let me know how you managed to run Fedora Core 4 onto >>>> CF and boot the soekris. I'm looking for similar solution for net >>>> 5501. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> kannaiyan >>>> >>>> On 7/9/07, R Bruce Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have both 4801 and 5501 running with Fedora Core 4 from CF. >>>>> >>>>> I have noticed that during the attempted boot of Fedora 7, that there >>>>> are no drives visible during the nash init script running from the >>>>> initial ram disk image, nor during a non-initrd boot. No hda, no sda, no >>>>> labels... >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone know what driver I might be missing here? >>>>> >>>>> I have tried the various ones that are listed from a search of the >>>>> CS5536 and AMD stuff through the initrd image, (like , pata_cs5535.ko , >>>>> 5530 and 5520) but I don't see anything in the modules that acknowledges >>>>> the CF configuration like what happened in the FC4 versions. >>>>> >>>>> Is this just a matter of the 5536 being too new for Fedora? Or am I >>>>> missing something else? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> "Suppose you were an idiot... >>>>> And suppose you were a member of Congress... >>>>> But I repeat myself." >>>>> - Mark Twain >>>>> >>>>> =========================================================== >>>>> R Bruce Hoffman >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Soekris-tech mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >>>>> >>>>> >>> -- >>> "Suppose you were an idiot... >>> And suppose you were a member of Congress... >>> But I repeat myself." >>> - Mark Twain >>> >>> =========================================================== >>> R Bruce Hoffman >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Soekris-tech mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >>> >> -- >> "The lessons of history teach us - if they teach us anything - that nobody >> learns the lessons that history teaches us." - Paul Robinson >> _______________________________________________ >> Soekris-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >> > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > -- "Suppose you were an idiot... 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