Bug 73296

Summary:	Install or boot hangs with kernel 2.4.18-5 and 2.4.18-10 with Matrox 120Gb disks
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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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	nobody
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Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
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Description Xander D Harkness 2002-09-02 16:50:51 UTC

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Description of problem:
I tried to install 7.3 and then following failure the current beta 7.3.92.  All
provide the same error: 

While booting it starts the partition check and halts showing hda: as the last
item on the screen.  I have left it for inexcess of twelve hours and it does not
move forwards, though the hard drive light is on and flickering.

The machine I have difficulty with I installed 7.2 on and then upgraded to 7.3 
I get the same problem I experienced on install on both kernels 2.4.18-5 and
2.4.18-10.  It does boot happily and work with kernel 2.4.9-34


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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Place 7.3 boot media (floppy or CD) in machine to boot
2.boot with no additional arguments to the kernel
3.Boot hands at:
Partition check
hda:
	

Actual Results:  Same as described

Expected Results:  Should boot normally to install or to run the OS

Additional info:

CPU:
Model: AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processor
MHz: 350
BogoMIPS: 699.59
Architecture: i586
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Cache: 256 KB
Stepping: 1
Family: 5
Number of CPUs: 1

 
Memory:
RAM: 192 MB
Swap: 376 MB
 
DMI Info:
Product: ALADDIN5
Bios:

Award Software International, Inc.

4.51 PG - 11/16/99

 
Networking Info:
Host name: 
IP Address: 127.0.0.1



Hard Drives:
Description Bus Device Physical
Maxtor 4G120J6 IDE hda 58853/16/255
Maxtor 4G120J6 IDE hdc 58853/16/255



Mouse:
Description Bus Device Driver
Generic 3 Button Mouse (PS/2) PSAUX psaux generic3ps/2



USB:
Description Bus Vendor String Driver
USB OHCI Root Hub USB   unknown
M5237 USB PCI Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] usb-ohci



Audio:
Description Bus Vendor String Driver
OPL3-SAX Sound Board Unknown ISAPNP   opl3sa2



Video:
Description Bus Vendor String Driver
Vanta [NV6] PCI nVidia Corporation Card RIVA TNT2



Other Devices:
Description Bus Vendor String Driver
M1541 PCI Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] unknown
M5243 PCI Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] unknown
M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] PCI Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] unknown
M5229 IDE PCI Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] unknown

Comment 1 Alan Cox 2002-09-02 18:57:15 UTC

This is another case of the LBA48 bug I sent you fixes for Arjan

Comment 2 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:39:53 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/