Bug 50302
Summary: | [IDE Problems] Installer crashes when transferring install image to hard drive | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <drjag> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.1 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2001-08-10 02:11:03 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2001-07-30 06:19:47 UTC
When the installer freezes, can you press <Ctrl><Alt><F4> and see if there are any kernel error messages? I pressed Ctrl-Alt-F4 as you suggested and although I could not write fast enough to capture everything, I think I got what's important: <7> ISO 9660 extensions RRIP_1991A <7> Unable to identify CD ROM format <6> Adding Swap <4> 8 reg 439.600 Mb/sec <4> 32 reg 244.800 Mb/sec <4> pII_max 601.200 Mb/sec <4> p5_max 629.200 Mb/sec <4> hdc timeout waiting for DMA <4> ide_dma_proc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout function only: 14 <4> irq timeout: status=0xff { Busy} <4> DMA disabled <4> ATAPI reset timed-out, status=0xff <4> reset timed-out, status=0xff <4> status timeout: status=0xff { Busy} <4> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 1035320 The last four lines just keep repeating as the CD ROM is silent. I am able to read this CD in Windows and in RedHat 6.1 I could copy both RH7 install disks to the FAT32 partition: /dev/hdb1 and try installing from there. On the first disk there are some RPMS that are in the RedHat directory rather than in the subdirectory RPMS. Should I maintain the same organization and combine the RPMS from the RPMS directories on both disks? try booting the installer with "linux ida=nodma". If this works, send the output of: for I in /proc/ide/hd*; do echo $I; cat $I/model; done Since I last commented, I decided to work around the cdrom problem by booting into RedHat6.1 and making an iso9660 image of the RH7.1 install CDs. I then booted from an installatiion diskette for RH7.1 and was then able to finally install RH7.1 However, when I tried to install RPMS from the Powertools CD the GNORPM hung when trying to read the CD so the bug appears to be with the kernel and not anaconda. I then booted RH7.1 with your boot paramter ide=nodma and tried to install RPMS from the Powertools CD, but the GNORPM hung with the same ATAPI reset timed out sys error message. Here is /proc/ide/hd*/model as you requested: /proc/ide/hda ST34342A /proc/ide/hdb IBM-DTLA-307015 /proc/ide/hdc BCD 32X CD-ROM so, if I'm reading you right, ide=nodma didn't get rid of the timeouts, correct? My apologies -- I must have goofed! ide=nodma fixes the problem. I've re-checked now several times the boot parameter ide=nodma when booting RH7.1 and that seems to solve the problem of reading CDROMs. I've also re-checked booting without this parameter and find that the system then hangs when reading the CDROM. Fortunately I can shut the system down from another Virtual Terminal, but the system is unable to successfully unmount /home and must recheck and fix the filesystem on reboot. I guess the problem is now solved? I was afraid I was going to have to attempt to compile a newer version of the kernel. My apologies -- I must have goofed! ide=nodma fixes the problem. I've re-checked now several times the boot parameter ide=nodma when booting RH7.1 and that seems to solve the problem of reading CDROMs. I've also re-checked booting without this parameter and find that the system then hangs when reading the CDROM. Fortunately I can shut the system down from another Virtual Terminal, but the system is unable to successfully unmount /home and must recheck and fix the filesystem on reboot. I guess the problem is now solved? I was afraid I was going to have to attempt to compile a newer version of the kernel. ide=nodma is a reasonable workaround for the bad cdrom drive; I'll add it to the list of known-bad cdromdrives so it'll be automatic in the future. Thanks for the info. |