Bug 138560
Summary: | Install hang when loading gdth driver. | ||||||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Benoit Roy <benoitroy> | ||||
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Tom Coughlan <coughlan> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 4.0 | CC: | dledford, illtud.daniel, jturner, jwest, tburke | ||||
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Target Release: | --- | ||||||
Hardware: | i686 | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2010-06-07 04:51:27 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Benoit Roy
2004-11-09 21:42:56 UTC
> Will other versions of RHEL 4 (ES, WS or desktop) change something ? No, they use the same kernel. > System works fine with other OS (other Linux distributions or ...) Have you tried other 2.6 Linux kernels? I suspect the problem may be with the gdth driver in 2.6. It is not very widely used anymore. A problem was fixed recently with gdth on a large memory system. How much memory does your system have? Have you tried other 2.6 Linux kernels?
> Yes, I used Mandrake 10.0 Official (kernel: 2.6.3.7).
My system isn't a large memory system (it actually have 2 Gbytes of RAM).
Is there a command I can issue to figure out what driver Mandrake is
using (I'm no to familiar with Linux) ?
The driver will print its version number when it is loaded. Have a look at dmesg after boot, or /var/log/messages. This may not be much help because I doubt the version number has been incremented lately, but if you could post that whole section from the log it might be helpful. Created attachment 107110 [details]
Log from power-up to GDT init (from Mandrake 10.0)
Is this still open? I'm getting this with U1 install, and I'm currently downloading the U3 isos, but I think this should either be closed if it's resolved or somebody should have fixed it if it isn't! I do not have a gdth adapter to test with, so this BZ has languished. Let know your results. Would you be able to try a patch? The easiest way would be to boot off some other hardware, then test the gdth. |