F8 New Installation - Driver problem

[satimis]

Hi folks,


Mobo - ASUS A8N-VM
AMD - Athlon64 3000+
HD - ATA 40G
Installer - F8 dvd 86_64
Fresh installation


Tried 2 days to install F8 w/o result. The PC hung on "load amd pata driver".


So I "boot: linux noprobe" instead. But unable to find the driver for the ATA HD. On "Select driver" having tried follows;

low-level driver for AMD PATA IDE (pata_amd)
low-level driver for the Highpoint HPT366/368 (pata_htp3x3)

Library module for ATA device (libata)
low-level driver for Ali PATA (pata_ali)

All w/o results. Please advise where can I download the appropriate driver? TIA


B.R.
satimis

[MikeTbob]

HIya satimis,
Try using other boot options like

linux ide=nodma

[satimis]

HIya satimis,
Try using other boot options like

linux ide=nodma

Thanks for your advice.


Sorry it doesn't work. Still the same, hangs on;

Loading SCSI driver

Loading pata_amd driver...

I can't find this option on F2


satimis

[satimis]

Hi folks,


Finally I have F8 x86_64 installed on a SATA HD on the same box. "F8 x86_64" and "F8 i386" encountered the same problem unable to find the driver for ATA HD resulting in NO DRIVE found.

I'm now updating F8. On booting the text scrolling shows a RED warning about ata driver. I try to search this warning on boot.log. But it is an empty file.

# ls /var/log/

anaconda.log     boot.log  faillog  mcelog    samba           wtmp
anaconda.syslog  btmp      gdm      messages  secure          Xorg.0.log
anaconda.xlog    cron      httpd    ntpstats  setroubleshoot  Xorg.0.log.old
audit            cups      lastlog  ppp       spooler         yum.log
BackupPC         dirmngr   mail     prelink   tallylog
bittorrent       dmesg     maillog  rpmpkgs   vbox

Please advise which file I need to refer to? TIA


B.R.
satimis

[MikeTbob]

Hi folks,


Finally I have F8 x86_64 installed on a SATA HD on the same box. "F8 x86_64" and "F8 i386" encountered the same problem unable to find the driver for ATA HD resulting in NO DRIVE found.

I'm now updating F8. On booting the text scrolling shows a RED warning about ata driver. I try to search this warning on boot.log. But it is an empty file.

# ls /var/log/

anaconda.log     boot.log  faillog  mcelog    samba           wtmp
anaconda.syslog  btmp      gdm      messages  secure          Xorg.0.log
anaconda.xlog    cron      httpd    ntpstats  setroubleshoot  Xorg.0.log.old
audit            cups      lastlog  ppp       spooler         yum.log
BackupPC         dirmngr   mail     prelink   tallylog
bittorrent       dmesg     maillog  rpmpkgs   vbox

Please advise which file I need to refer to? TIA


B.R.
satimis

Glad you got it installed finally, sorry I couldn't be more helpful. You should be able to see your error messages in /vat/log/messages. Try using cat and grep
And don't forget to login as root first.

cat /var/log/messages | grep ata

If that doesn't produce any results then just try

cat /var/log/messages

You'll have to scroll up to see all the messages
You could also check the output of the dmesg command

dmesg

[satimis]

Glad you got it installed finally, sorry I couldn't be more helpful. You should be able to see your error messages in /vat/log/messages. Try using cat and grep
And don't forget to login as root first.

cat /var/log/messages | grep ata

If that doesn't produce any results then just try

cat /var/log/messages

You'll have to scroll up to see all the messages
You could also check the output of the dmesg command

dmesg

Thanks for your advice.


$ sudo cat /var/log/messages | grep ata

....
Jan 28 07:57:22 localhost kernel: scsi2 : pata_amd
Jan 28 07:57:22 localhost kernel: scsi3 : pata_amd
Jan 28 07:57:22 localhost kernel: ata3: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x00000000000101f0 ctl 0x00000000000103f6 bmdma 0x000000000001ffa0 irq 14
Jan 28 07:57:22 localhost kernel: ata4: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0000000000010170 ctl 0x0000000000010376 bmdma 0x000000000001ffa8 irq 15
Jan 28 07:57:22 localhost kernel: ata4.00: ATAPI: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3570A, 1.11, max UDMA/33
Jan 28 07:57:22 localhost kernel: ata4.01: ATAPI: SONY CD-ROM CDU5221,  0.35, ma
.....

I think the problem is here.

$ dmesg

......
No NUMA configuration found
Faking a node at 0000000000000000-000000003ffc0000
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 159) 0 entries of 3200 used
Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 262080) 1 entries of 3200 used
Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-000000003ffc0000
.....
.....
scsi0 : sata_nv
scsi1 : sata_nv
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x000000000001e800 ctl 0x000000000001e482 bmdma 0x000000000001e000 irq 21
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x000000000001e400 ctl 0x000000000001e082 bmdma 0x000000000001e008 irq 21
usb 2-3: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
.....

Now I don't have the ATA 133 HD connected on the PC. Won't it be the problem originating on the F8 DVD installer? Any idea to come this problem to install F8 on ATA 133 HD?


A side question, Why boot.log is an empty file? TIA


B.R.
satimis