Bug 76563

Summary:	(IDE ALI)installer hangs at initial boot during partition check
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Matthew Sale <mdsale>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	alan
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Description Matthew Sale 2002-10-23 14:35:03 UTC

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Description of problem:
installer hangs during partition check on Compaq 1690 laptop.  Redhat 6.2 was
able to install successfully. 


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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Boot either from CD or boot.img or pcmcia.img
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
 hda:

Expected Results:  Should have continued on after this point, instead it hangs

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-10-23 15:35:56 UTC

Are you referring to the kernel's partition check right at the beginning?

Comment 2 Matthew Sale 2002-10-23 18:16:24 UTC

Yes, its while I'm trying to boot off the install CD so I upgrade.

Thanks,

Matt

Comment 3 Matthew Sale 2002-10-29 12:41:47 UTC

I would *really* like to get this laptop upgraded to RH7.3!  Please can you offer
any suggestions of how to accomplish this?  Is there a way to do this via some
form of "rpm -F" command after I've booted into RH6.2?  Are there any versions
of the boot.img available anywhere that either bypass the partition check, or
do it differently than the RH7.3 boot.img file?  

Thanks,

Matt

Comment 4 Matthew Sale 2002-11-01 03:33:28 UTC

The RedHat 8.0 pcia.img yields the exact same results as 7.3, the computer
freezes at:

PCI No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:10.0.  Please try using
pci-biosirq.
ALI15X3: chipset revision 32
...
hda: FUJITSU MHR2020AT D, ATA DISK drive
ide: Assuming 33 MHz...
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2202, ...
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 39070080 sectors (20004 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS-2432/255/63, (U)DMA
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision 3.12
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
 hda:

Comment 5 Matthew Sale 2002-11-01 13:26:34 UTC

The RH 7.0 pcmcia.img boot image works, but of course will not install 7.3 and
I can't download 7.0 via a 40kb connection.

Comment 6 Matthew Sale 2002-11-01 15:51:45 UTC

The RH 7.2 pcmcia.img and pcmciadd.img combination boots successfully, and
lauches anaconda.  It appears to be working!

Comment 7 Matthew Sale 2002-11-02 01:05:28 UTC

OK, 7.3 is loaded, but now it hangs at the same partition check during a 
normal boot. I'm now assuming this is a kernel problem.  Is there a way to 
use the 7.2 boot disk to load a different kernel via a rescue mode?

Thanks,

Matt

Comment 8 Matthew Sale 2002-11-04 20:28:01 UTC

Adding "ide=nodma" seems to fix the problem.  I found this in the RH8.0 online docs.

Comment 9 Alan Cox 2003-06-09 13:25:44 UTC

Should be fixed in RH9 and errata kernels nowdays. The updated ALi driver knows
about specific chip limitations and handles them properly.