Bug#272142: Installation Report (Dell Precision 650 + FastTrak S150 TX2plus Controller)
> I popped the disc in, booted, used 'linux26 vga=791' at the prompt
> and everything went smooth until it was time to detect the hard
> drives. They didn't appear. I looked at dmesg and didn't see any
> sign of controllers. So, I dropped to console on vt2 and manually
> did a:
>
> modprobe sata_promise
>
> dmesg showed the controller and drives recognized but the installer
> wouldn't pick up. Based on something I read on google, I rebooted,
> and at the first prompt for language, dropped to vt2 and installed
> the module with 'modprobe'
>
> This time, the drives were correctly found and easily partitioned.
> Other than that, the install went smoothly.
>
> This is probably already a fixed issue (since my iso is old but I
> didn't have any spare media around to try a new daily) but I wanted
> to mention it just in case.
Could you re-test with a daily build in the next days ? Just go up to
the HD detection step and see if the SATA controller is detected
now. As nothing is written on the disk, you can do this without
killing the installed system.
Testing this is somewhat important as such machines are relatively
common.
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