Bug 82109
| Summary: | Unable to install from PCMCIA CD-ROM on Vaio PCG-C1VN | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Linus Torvalds <torvalds> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | phoebe | CC: | paskalis |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-02-25 01:37:55 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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| Bug Depends On: | 84701 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 79578 | ||
Btw, the screen (which has that strange 1024x480 aspect ratio) also ends up being slightly off, even in regular text-mode. Only half of the last line is visible once the install starts, even though the machine BIOS boots in a perfectly normal and visible 80x25 mode. Those thin-and-lights are interesting, and used to be hard to install on. HOWEVER, that should have been fixed with the new in-kernel PCMCIA, and indeed the SuSE-8.1 install showed that it should all "just work". The Phoebe installer was missing 16-bit PCMCIA support, so ide-cs wouldn't get detected or loaded. This has since been added. PCMCIA cards will work again in beta 2. The ide-cs problem is still there. The module is present but not in modinfo. Suggest "ide1=0x180 nopcmcia" as a possible workaround. The module is there now so should work Tried to install in a Vaio PCG-C1VFK with a PCMCIA CDROM with the first phoebe with similar results. Now trying with the third phoebe, and the results are the same. There are however two different behaviors depending on the kernel options. If no options are given, the results are the same (asking for install method, "Unable to find any device of the type needed", and presenting a list of SCSI drivers). When the options "ide1=0x180 nopcmcia" are passed, it passes to the stage where it asks for a media check, performs the media check, loads X (with a white background) and freezes there after showing some vertical redish lines. pcmcia cdrom installs are working with -re0224.0 |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021218 Description of problem: The install process sees the PCMCIA controller, but is apparently not able to load the ide-cs driver, so does not see any CD-ROM. The ide-cs driver isn't available in the list of drivers to select, either. And the old-fashioned way - to let the IDE driver take control of the IDE controller off the PCMCIA bus directly by using the kernel command line of "ide1=0x180" - doesn't work either, since the fact that the bootup _does_ see (and reconfigure) the PCMCIA controller will make it unavailable to the non-PCMCIA IDE driver. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Get a small laptop without built-in CD-ROM or floppy drive 2.Try to boot up using a CD over PCMCIA 3.Profit! Actual Results: When doing regular install, asking for "local CD-ROM" install, the install sequence says "Unable to find any device of the type needed", and gives a list of SCSI drivers to choose from. When using "ide1=0x180", the kernel finds the CD at bootup, but then when PCMCIA starts up it will reset and disable the controller, so then when the install sequence tries to mount the device it hangs. Expected Results: PCMCIA just finds the IDE-CS controller. This works fine in SuSE 8.1 on the very same machine, btw. It's definitely not a kernel limitation, it's apparently a simple lack of an IDE-CS driver. Tssk. Not all of us want to lug around 7-pound monster laptops when we travel the world. Additional info: I bet this same thing can be demonstrated on most Sony thin-and-light notebooks without built-in CD-ROM. I won't be able to answer further requests for information, since I'm travelling for the next two weeks. Fix _should_ be as simple as just installing ide-cs on the CD, and just telling cardmgr about it!