F17 Beta DVD install options [OT]

Thu Apr 19 01:39:24 UTC 2012

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Tommy Pham <tommyhp2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> On 2012/04/18 09:42 (GMT-0700) Tommy Pham composed:
>>
>>> Tried a i386 F17 Beta on an old Dell Optiplex GX280 machine here at
>>> work and works fine.  However my new upgraded home machine fails :(
>>
>>
>>> Hardware info:
>>
>>
>>> * Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX
>>> * 3ware 9650SE-8LPML with 4x HDD on RAID5
>>> * DVD-RW connected to a mobo SATA connection.
>>
>>
>>> All mobo SATAs (including eSATA) are set to AHCI, only the DVD-RW is
>>> connected to the mobo SATA.
>>
>>
>> Presumably you mean all SATA on the new machine are set to AHCI? I can't
>> find an AHCI setting in my GX280's BIOS, and would like to know where you
>> did if you did. cf. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757426#c23
>> --
>> "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant
>> words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
>>
>>  Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
>>
>> Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/
>> --
>
> Yes, I'm sorry I wasn't explicit about the problems and the hardware
> info with related settings.  The AHCI are set on my new Gigabyte mobo.
>  (I only tested the F17 beta on GX280 just to make sure that the GUI
> install process should work.)  Side note, I think there's like 3 SATA
> chip for that Gigabyte mobo: 1 AMD SB950 (4 SATA ports) and 2 x
> Marvell 88SE9172 chips (2 internal + 2 eSATA).  I also remembering
> seeing that the kernel did detect that Marvell chip.  I'll check on
> the messages later when I get home to get the details.
>
> Thanks,
> Tommy

I did something last night that really broke F17.  Unfortunately, I
was a bit tired and didn't keep track of the things I did so I
couldn't restore it.  So I reinstalled F16 and about to do preupgrade
to F17 again because the F17 alpha would only give me bare minimal
install.  Haven't had the chance to burn a F17 beta DVD yet.  OK here
is the info on new upgraded system (UUID
1e8f3c02-9ccd-45f7-9060-68f4d0aea671 - ID of submitted system profile
- of reinstalled F16 from DVD)...

[root at fedora /]# yum update
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
No Packages marked for Update

[root at fedora /]# uname -a
Linux fedora.workgroup.domain 3.3.1-5.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Apr 10
19:56:52 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[root at fedora /]# grep -i 'sata' /var/log/messages
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    0.939482] ahci 0000:00:11.0: AHCI
0001.0200 32 slots 4 ports 6 Gbps 0xf impl SATA mode
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    0.940336] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133
abar m1024 at 0xfdfff000 port 0xfdfff100 irq 19
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    0.940340] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133
abar m1024 at 0xfdfff000 port 0xfdfff180 irq 19
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    0.940343] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133
abar m1024 at 0xfdfff000 port 0xfdfff200 irq 19
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    0.940346] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133
abar m1024 at 0xfdfff000 port 0xfdfff280 irq 19
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    0.940482] ahci 0000:03:00.0: AHCI
0001.0000 32 slots 2 ports 6 Gbps 0x3 impl SATA mode
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    0.940864] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133
abar m512 at 0xfdaff000 port 0xfdaff100 irq 41
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    0.940867] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133
abar m512 at 0xfdaff000 port 0xfdaff180 irq 41
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    0.940994] ahci 0000:0a:00.0: AHCI
0001.0000 32 slots 2 ports 6 Gbps 0x3 impl SATA mode
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    0.941390] ata7: SATA max UDMA/133
abar m512 at 0xfd0ff000 port 0xfd0ff100 irq 42
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    0.941393] ata8: SATA max UDMA/133
abar m512 at 0xfd0ff000 port 0xfd0ff180 irq 42
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    1.245074] ata5: SATA link down
(SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    1.245080] ata4: SATA link down
(SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    1.245109] ata6: SATA link down
(SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    1.245116] ata2: SATA link down
(SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    1.245149] ata1: SATA link down
(SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    1.245172] ata3: SATA link down
(SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    1.247052] ata7: SATA link down
(SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    1.401071] ata8: SATA link up 1.5
Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    1.404803] ata8: limiting SATA link
speed to 1.5 Gbps
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [    6.861230] ata8: SATA link up 1.5
Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
Apr 18 18:02:14 fedora kernel: [   12.321242] ata8: SATA link up 1.5
Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)

** Note that my DVD-RW is installed on ata8 since that's the only port
with link up.

[root at fedora /]# lspci|egrep -i '(sb9x|marvell)'
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA
Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 40) << provide 4 ports as seen in messages
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB
OHCI0 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB
EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB
OHCI0 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB
EHCI Controller
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE
Controller (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host
controller (rev 40)
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB
OHCI2 Controller
00:16.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB
OHCI0 Controller
00:16.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB
EHCI Controller
03:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 9172
(rev 11) << provide 2 ports as seen in messages
0a:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 9172
(rev 11) << provide 2 ports as seen in messages

for total of 8 SATA (including 2 eSATA) ports.

[root at fedora /]# ls /dev/s*
/dev/sda  /dev/sda1  /dev/sda2  /dev/sda3  /dev/sda4  /dev/sda5
/dev/sda6  /dev/sda7  /dev/sg0  /dev/snapshot  /dev/stderr  /dev/stdin
 /dev/stdout  /dev/systty

IIRC, the removable optical drive is usually sr0, sr1, etc... right?

And snippet of menuentry from /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Fedora Linux, with Linux 3.3.1-5.fc16.x86_64' --class
fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
        load_video
        set gfxpayload=keep
        insmod gzio
        insmod part_msdos
        insmod ext2
        set root='(hd0,msdos2)'
        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
e807fecb-ecff-458b-8822-8a743cac1f58
        echo    'Loading Linux 3.3.1-5.fc16.x86_64 ...'
        linux   /vmlinuz-3.3.1-5.fc16.x86_64
root=UUID=ddd4e85b-05d5-496b-9c1c-4776efaec55c ro nomodeset rd.md=0
rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 acpi=no  KEYTABLE=us quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
rhgb rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
        echo    'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
        initrd  /initramfs-3.3.1-5.fc16.x86_64.img
}

Thanks,
Tommy