Bug 65458

Summary:	Install hangs upon fist boot from CD or Floppy at disk read
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Xander D Harkness <harkness>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	nobody
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Description Xander D Harkness 2002-05-24 14:59:16 UTC

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Description of problem:
Red Hat will not install on my laptop (even though Debian will.)
Red Hat versions 7.1, 7.2, 7.92 and 7.3 all fail at the same point with the
following message:
EXT2-fs: unable to read super block
cramfs: wrong magic
FAT: unable to read boot sector
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=09:02, iso_blknum=16, block=32
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:02


At which point it stops.  I have formatted the whole filesystem, installed
Debian on it twice.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Put in Red Hat boot media (floppy or CD)
2.Boot
3.Error above obtained.  Will only hard reboot
	

Actual Results:  System hangs

Expected Results:  Red Hat installation

Additional info:

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2002-05-28 11:28:37 UTC

Can you give some description of the hardware ? CPU, ram, videochipset etc ?

Comment 2 Xander D Harkness 2002-06-12 12:20:59 UTC

celeron 733
128Mb ram (16 shared with video)
SiS 630 video
6 Gb Hard drive

Please note that I have had Red Hat previously installed on this machine.

After the reported error I have done a full format of the drive and run scan
disk and had no reported errors.

Sorry for the delay

Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2002-06-12 12:23:58 UTC

>128Mb ram (16 shared with video)
>SiS 630 video

I've had a report where the "shared" bits somehow got misdetected.
Could you try passing the mem=111M parameter to the kernel and see if that helps?

Comment 4 Xander D Harkness 2002-06-18 07:40:50 UTC

Yipppeeee, yes it does, I have a functional laptop again.

Thanks very much.

Kind regards
Xander

Comment 5 Arjan van de Ven 2002-06-18 08:01:00 UTC

Could you attach the dmesg output from a normal boot?
Maybe I can see something that indicates what's up (or maybe there's nothing
special.. who knows)

Comment 6 Xander D Harkness 2002-07-25 08:50:25 UTC

That worked very well indeed.

Thanks very much :-)