https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=305095#c6
--- Comment #6 from Felix Miata 2007-08-28 18:19:39 MST ---
I erred in comment 2. I used the KDE Beta1 iso to install to my AMD/NForce2
system, then upgraded to Beta2 using a Factory mirror. I did not burn that CD,
but rather placed it on a partition the installer could find, and used Grub to
load copies of the initrd and kernel from it. Using Gnome rather than KDE
shouldn't have made a difference for this problem, but maybe something changed
for the worse in Beta2. According to my menu.lst, and not my recollection, I
did not use brokenmodules=ata_piix, but rather as you did,
hwprobe=-modules.pata, which made all partitions /dev/hdxxx, not /dev/sd*.
OTOH, my other Factory system was installed from the same iso several days
later, and subsequently upgraded Factory/Beta2 using command line Smart, but
did according to menu.lst on its (Debian) /boot use brokenmodules=ata_piix to
wind up with no /dev/sda*.
As the installer's partitioner is showing you sd instead of hd, maybe something
else is going on on your system. Are you sure you typed brokenmodules=ata_piix
and hwprobe=-modules.pata correctly? Are there any SATA controllers in your
system?
One other difference is all my partitioning is done exclusively using DFSee,
usually the OS/2 version, but often the DOS from CD version.
Can you run Knoppix 5.x and access your PATA as /dev/hd*?
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