Bug 59516

Summary:	KR7A-RAID - Kernel Panic after trying to run install or start system w/ RAID turned on
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Montana Harkin <coffie>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Montana Harkin 2002-02-09 01:57:18 UTC

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Description of problem:
When either trying to install a redhat 7.2 system or after installation, if 
raid is turned on in the bios then there will be a kernel panic before setup is 
entered or before bootup is complete, occurs after detection of southbridge.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enable RAID in Bios
2.Boot either red hat linux 7.2 install or regular bootup
3.Wait for kernel panic
	

Actual Results:  System Crash

Expected Results:  System should have booted up, noticing the raid, and 
mounting the harddrives on the raid

Additional info:

System:
Abit KR7A-RAID
Athlon T-Bird 1.333ghz
256mb of Micron PC2100 DDR
AGP: Geforce2 GTS
PCI0: 3com 3c905C-TX
PCI1: Creative PC-DVD Encore Dxr3
PCI2: Soundblaster Live 5.1 Value
PCI3: 3com U.S. Robotics 56k Voice PCI
3 harddrives, 30gig seagate on hda, 20gig maxtor on hdb, 40 gig maxtor on raid0
2 cdroms, sony 8x cd-r on hdc, 5x creative dvd on hdd

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2002-02-11 15:54:29 UTC

Any more info on this "a panic" ?
Also have you loaded the software raid drivers for promise ?

Comment 2 Montana Harkin 2002-04-21 03:07:34 UTC

ok, so i downloaded the ataraid drivers that you created, followed the
instructions for installing the ataraid.tar.gz

i executed the shell script to make /dev/ataraid/
i installed the kernel source for my kernel (2.4.10)
ran make
tried insmod ataraid.o
recieve this error:
"
[root@coffie ataraid]# insmod ataraid.o
ataraid.o: unresolved symbol del_gendisk
ataraid.o: unresolved symbol add_gendisk
ataraid.o:
Hint: You are trying to load a module without a GPL compatible license
      and it has unresolved symbols. Contact the module supplier for
      assistance. only they can help you.

"

i believe that it has to do with my kernel not having access to gendisk

thanks

Coffie

Comment 3 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:39:22 UTC

Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/