Known issues with nForce4-4x chipset and recent kernels?

[Matthias Saou]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote :

> I installed a rawhide (FC4->rawhide) system on a nforce4 mobo a few
> months ago. The tricks I used were :
> 
> 1. sata disks on sii controller (not the nforce one)
> 2. pata cd drive (sata dvd would fail once anaconda tried to reload it)
> 3. no winraid, but linux software raid on lvm
> 
> I'd have expected the situation to get better with FC5 :(

Thanks for the tip, but I just tried putting the sata drive on the
sata_sil controller (as a single drive, "JBOD") and the FC5 installer
still doesn't find any drive after having loaded the sata_sil module.

I can boot from the sata drive on that controller too, but again, even
after loading sata_sil from the initrd, it doesn't find the drive,
complains about /dev/root not found etc. and panics.

Seems like I'm really stuck as none of sata_nv, sata_sil or the normal ata
seem to work with recent kernels.

Any other pointers to stuff to test (even kernel patches, updated modules
etc.) would be very welcome.

Matthias

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