Comment 11 for bug 567557

I ran into a similar issue on a full desktop install on another machine and found that dmraid was causing the issue.

For me the disk partitioner in the installer was hanging, showing no hard drives. I couldn't continue, all I could do was quit.

For me the fix was to remove dmraid

Not sure how to do it with the netboot iso, but with the full x86 iso I booted into the live cd (works fine). and opened a terminal and ran:

sudo apt-get remove dmraid

after it was removed the installer detected the hd.

Perhaps something similar could be done in the netboot iso?

I have a ION machine at home that I was hoping to install 10.4 on tonight. I'll give it a shot and see what I can come up with.

NOTE: In the full .iso there is an F6 option for nodmraid or some such.... this STILL causes the HD to not be detected.

Hope that is helpful.