FS#7354 - IDE /devs nonexistent on this IBM PII hardware

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jonathan E. Brickman (jonathanbrickman0000) - Sunday, 03 June 2007, 20:08 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 23 July 2007, 19:06 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Installation
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture i686
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.05 Duke
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

When I try to install Arch/Duke on this PC I am typing into right now, /dev/hda is nonexistent, even though it boots off the CD and gets to a root install shell fine. Arch/0.8 didn't get to a shell at all. Foresight Linux dmesg attached.
   dmesg.txt (9.9 KiB)
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Monday, 23 July 2007, 19:06 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jens Adam (byte) - Monday, 04 June 2007, 02:04 GMT
That's perfectly normal and not a bug. When kernel 2.6.19 introduced the new libata subsystem, all harddisks (ide/pata, sata, scsi) get recognized as /dev/sd?. Boot the install cd with 'arch ide-legacy' if you don't like it.
Comment by Jonathan E. Brickman (jonathanbrickman0000) - Monday, 04 June 2007, 12:36 GMT
I know. There were not any /dev/sd* items, or /dev/hd* items, whether or not I enabled ide-legacy.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Thursday, 07 June 2007, 07:49 GMT
to your dmesg it should be /dev/hda, don't know why its not recognized anymore.
could be a kernel bug, do you have more about your hardware? like lspci and the modalias of your disk controller
Comment by Jonathan E. Brickman (jonathanbrickman0000) - Thursday, 07 June 2007, 11:59 GMT
'lspci' output is attached (Vector Linux now). How do I get the modalias?
   lspci.txt (0.7 KiB)
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Sunday, 10 June 2007, 09:56 GMT
have you tried Duke isos already? if not would be a good idea to test the linuxtag duke isos
Comment by Jonathan E. Brickman (jonathanbrickman0000) - Sunday, 10 June 2007, 13:50 GMT
Yes, Duke 2007-05-17 is the ISO I tried. Is there a later?
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Sunday, 24 June 2007, 17:49 GMT
http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/rc-iso/Archlinux-i686-2007.06-Don't-Panic-beta1.base.iso
please try this iso it uses latest available kernel on kernel.org
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Saturday, 21 July 2007, 16:37 GMT
any status on this, else i close it tomorrow

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