FC6 Can't Find PCI Bus Devices

[Alan]

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:50:57 -0800
"Andy Schlei" <andyschlei at hotmail.com> 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.

The kernel tries several ways to get this information. It should always
make the right decision but you can use 

	pci=conf1
	pci=conf2
	pci=bios

The following might be relevant if there is a weird bug but should not
matter

	pci=nommconf
	pci=noacpi
	pci=lastbus=254

Alan