Behavior differences between anaconda and "real" boot? (sata_nv problem)

[Matthew E. Lauterbach]

On Monday, January 03, 2005 9:30 AM, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I own a neat little AMD64 Shuttle SN85G4 (V1) which works 
> great with FC3,
> so I recommended buying the same to my dad. He bought the 
> same, but it's V3
> now, which apparently features a newer nForce3 250 chipset, 
> and possibly
> some other minor changes.
> I only had an i386 FC3 install DVD handy when he got it, and 
> with only a
> modem connection, it really was my only option, so I installed that...
> things went fine (except the Radeon 9200 through the DVI output, the
> display went all black all the time after a few seconds, VGA 
> works fine
> though).
> My problem here is that it installed flawlessly on the Serial-ATA hard
> drive attached to that nForce3 250 chipset (sata_nv module), but the
> machine was never able to boot from the installed system.
> 
Sounds a lot like:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140367

Is the serial ata drive by any chance a Seagate?  If so, you may want to try
this kernel:
http://www.wtamu.edu/~mlauterbach/kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3_SATA.root.i686.rpm

All that is changed in this kernel is a line or two commented out.  I have
yet to get around to making and verifying that this will fix the x86_64
version of FC3 yet.  x86_64 and i386 versions of FC3 both behaved exactly
the same for me.

Matthew E. Lauterbach