I did the install via USB stick (set up by unetbootin), because this netbook has no CD/DVD. After the boot, there was no indication of any hard drive. "fdisk -l" showed only /dev/sda (i.e. the stick with the minimal install). I ended up doing the install under Knoppix, which did see the hard drive. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert USB key with Install-x86-minimal-20091027 into USB port and boot 2.After bootup, execute "fdisk -l" 3. Actual Results: The only storage device present was /dev/sda, i.e. the USB stick that the machine had just booted from. Expected Results: /dev/sda should be the Acer's hard drive /dev/sdb should be the USB stick For the hard drive, "lspci -v" (under Knoppix) showed... "Kernel driver in use: pata_sch" In "make menuconfig" during the install, I selected... Device Drivers Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers ATA SFF support Intel SCH PATA support ...and it booted up properly. Suggested resolution is to include the "pata_sch" module in the minimal install image.
On current minimal install isos, this pata_sch driver is available for modprobe but not loaded automatically by the initramfs. Should this bug remain open?
(In reply to Ben Kohler from comment #1) > On current minimal install isos, this pata_sch driver is available for > modprobe but not loaded automatically by the initramfs. Should this bug > remain open? Honestly I lean towards this being one of those situations where the user may just add "doload=pata_sch" on their kernel line. There are lots of non standard devices and I don't believe we are here to support everything, no one wants a 75MB initramfs.
