Bug 8315

Summary:	no hard drive found attempting to install mga3 beta 1
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Mike Rambo <mhrambo3501>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, thierry.vignaud, tmb
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kenel	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	reversing modaliases order in ldetect (same since forever)... previous ldetect patch results in that diff in lspcidrake (make run) output

Description Mike Rambo 2012-12-06 17:22:14 CET

Description of problem:
Net install of mga3 beta1 fails with "an error occurred - no valid devices were found on which to install filesystems".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
I thought I had obtained mga3 alpha3 but the graphical screen says it is beta 1.

How reproducible:
Boot the net install cd and follow the prompts. On my hardware it says it found "ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller","ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller" interfaces. Do you have another? After answering no I see the error specified above. This hardware works with other distributions.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot the net install cd.
2.Follow prompts until I see it found the ATI controllers
3.Answer no to the question "Do you have another one"
4.Read the error saying there is no valid device upon which to create filesystems

Comment 1 Mike Rambo 2012-12-06 17:37:59 CET

I forgot to mention that I have 1 SATA 200GB hdd and 1 SATA dvd drive (no IDE devices) connected to the system. The installer does not find the 200GB hdd.

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2012-12-06 17:49:03 CET

It looks like there's an ordering issue with kmod results

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud, tmb

Comment 3 Mike Rambo 2012-12-06 20:34:58 CET

Another note... Since this particular board has both IDE and SATA interfaces I decided to try an IDE hard disk. That appears to work. I do not see the question about whether are additional interfaces and it jumps right to the next screen (I think about partitioning though I don't clearly recall). The installation is progressing as I type. It won't be done for several hours so I won't reboot and know for sure until tomorrow but it appears at this point that it will work. It would appear the problem is only with the SATA hard drive. Perhaps the ordering thing mentioned above?

Comment 4 Thierry Vignaud 2012-12-06 21:19:29 CET

Stage1 detects disk OK
Stage2 has an issue (like if kmod results were reversed)

Thierry Vignaud 2012-12-06 21:27:16 CET

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 5 Thierry Vignaud 2012-12-06 21:28:02 CET

Created attachment 3204 [details]
reversing modaliases order in ldetect (same since forever)...

Comment 6 Thierry Vignaud 2012-12-06 21:28:37 CET

Created attachment 3205 [details]
previous ldetect patch results in that diff in lspcidrake (make run) output

Comment 7 Thomas Backlund 2012-12-06 21:40:28 CET

before applying any of that, I have re-added the "link ata before ide" in our upcoming 3.7 kernel, so please re-test with that if it makes any difference with this

Comment 8 Thierry Vignaud 2012-12-06 23:20:33 CET

There're fixes in kmod-12 but they don't help much

Comment 9 Thierry Vignaud 2012-12-07 07:27:35 CET

Fixed with kernel-3.7.0rc8

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Hardware: i586 => All
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Source RPM: (none) => kenel