"No driver found" when installing F14 to a 2TB drive using netinstall

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:42:24 +0000
Adam Zilkie <AZilkie at datacast.com> wrote:

> I need F14... upgrading to a new OS is not an option as I'm in an embedded environment and we've committed to F14.
> 
Then you may well be screwed. The usual reason the drive isn't found is
that your hardware is too new for the OS version and it doesn't know the
PCI identifiers. As F14 won't be upgraded you'll need to build yourself
various new components at which point it's not FC14.

You might be able to get stuff to work if the problem is a new
motherboard type which defaults to the disk in legacy mode. If you have a
BIOS or EFI option to put the disk controller it in AHCI mode that may do
the trick.

You'll still need to replace various packages for security reasons so
you'll end up with something that isn't FC14. It's a meaningless
definition anyway, count how many packages in FC14 as released are the
same in FC14 when it was end of life .. so staying with an FC14 release
even over its lifetime is in all but name little different to changing
release.

This is why for most product you really don't want to be using Fedora and
someone probably goofed in deciding to do so, as you'll now need to
actively track and fix all the known relevant security holes in packages
used in your deployment. That's a lot of manpower compared with using a
distro that does the work for you!

Alan