FC6 Can't Find PCI Bus Devices

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 17:50 -0800, Andy Schlei wrote:
> I am trying to install a clean version of FC6 on a PII 850 2 processor box.
> 
> On boot from the CD, Fedora does not detect anything on the PCI bus.  It 
> fails to find the monitor and does not find the network card, etc.
> 
> Moving to an alternate terminal, I tried doing lspci -v and received no 
> output.  I tried lspci -H 2 and it listed all of the PCI devices.  So 
> somehow, this information is not making it to the kernel for use.
> 
> I have tried every combination of PCI setup on the bios:  PNP OS = Y, reset 
> data=yes, etc.
> 
> It is an Tyan Tiger 133 V1.05, Award BIOS 6.00 PG, BIOS date 7/29/2000 (the 
> latest one available from Tyan).
> 
> I tired booting off of the FC5 rescue disc and had the same problem.  I did 
> not have the problem with FC4.
> 
> Thanks in advance for the help!
> 

Check the kernel log, does it boot with acpi?
If so, try adding acpi=no to the kernel command line. (/etc/grub.conf)

- Gilboa