Bug 77686
| Summary: | boot diskette install stalls with "redhat cdrom not found" | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <marconi> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | athlon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2002-11-14 21:58:32 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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If it is of any use. The laptop has windows XP home edition installed. It appears either the CD drive or the CD media is bad if you are getting these errors. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) Description of problem: I am trying to install redhat linux on a presario 900z laptop. After having inserted the boot diskette installation reaches window where decision between cdrom and hard-drive is required. Choosing cdrom results in "redhat cdrom not found". Have tried linux hdc=cdrom nodma, hdd=cdrom nodma, hdc=cdrom noautotune, hdd=cdrom noautotune without success. ." Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot: 2. 3. Additional info: some of the error messages sent to screen: ." System message: trying to mount hdc System log: hdc:ATAPI reset timed-out, status =0x00 ide1 reset timed-out, status=0x00 end_request I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0 iosfs-read-super bread failed, dev=16:00(hdc), sector 0 (repeated multiple times) also tried repeating with hda=cdrom, hdb=cdrom, and hdd=cdrom In these cases the results were catastrophic with the computer entering an unresponsive states with following messages directed to the screen: for hda hda: status error status = 0x051 drive ready seek complete error hda status error:erro = 0x04 end_request:I/O error, dev 3:00(hda),sector 0 unable to handle kernel null points dereference at virtual address 00000036 ... stack dump... etc for hdb hdb:ATAPI reset complete hdb:status error status=0x00 end-request I/O error,dev 03:40(hdb),sector 0 unable to handle kernel null pointer dereference at virtual address 00000036 ...stack dump.... hdd messages were similar to those of hda