Bug 29032
| Summary: | fisher wigs out on Emachines 333cs | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Mike Wohlgemuth <mjw> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | alex, dkl |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-03-05 18:16:44 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Mike Wohlgemuth
2001-02-23 14:30:17 UTC
Please try wolverine, our more recent beta release. It may well fix this; several different bugs that could potentially have created symptoms like this are fixed in that kernel. We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release. I tried wolverine, and I can't even manage to get it to install. I get the initial install screen, type 'expert', and when the kernel tries to boot, it gets to 'Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...' and then hangs. Is this problem likely to go away if I swap out the Cyrix MII in the 333cs with an AMD K6-II? I don't have one handy, but I'll put some effort into tracking one down if it's likely to fix it. I'll definitely keep the Cyrix around for any testing you might want to do, but I would like to get this box running some version of 2.4.x soon. Thanks Mike It might; there has been a fix recently for that particular bug on Cyrix chips, and I think that fix is more recent than wolverine. While I think it's in our latest rawhide kernel, that doesn't help you install... See bug #29143 for more information Replacing the Cyrix MII fixed my problem. Wolverine now boots fine on the box. We also have a Cyrix processor here to test with, so we can test cyrix fixes locally. This should be fixed for a while. If it doesn't work with recent kernels, please reopen this bug I'd like to reopen this bug. I, too, have an eMachines 333cs, and get largely the same behavior. In my case, I get the same "output format" - eight groups along the lines of "[<c01132f6>]" followed by a newline - but after a while the scrolling stops and the machine is well and truly hung. I tried videotaping the screen to see how far it the boot process got before the unwelcome behavior set in, and the last line I can make out is "Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds." The next frame of video shows an apparently cleared screen filled with the objectionable output. My version of RedHat is store-bought (7.1, deluxe workstation). Is CPU replacement really the way to go, here? Cheers... could you try booting with "ide=nodma" to see if that helps ? Tried it. No joy. FWIW, I've uploaded a JPG of the last frame I caught before things went blooey. It's at http://www.galexi.com/data/Frame323.jpg. It's a bit blurry, but maybe someone can "see" something there. Cheers... |
