Bug 90295
| Summary: | Boot hangs whem displaying the message "Finding Module Dependencies" | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Alex <amfmateus> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | benf+redhat |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:40:52 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I am having the same problem on my gateway 6400 server.
It looks like the system hangs when various rc scripts scan through
/proc for ide devices - the first one is the devlabel command getting
run. (I'm writing this off the top of my head - if not devlabel it is the program
from that DELL engineer to make symlinks to the drive devices).
But if you comment that stuff out, the system just hangs a bit later,
yet again in a /proc lookup.
My system is a SCSI/IDE system. System boots off the mirrored
SCSI drives(onboard scsi). If I boot the system with the IDE
drives off, everything is OK. I have 3 IDE cards:
onboard ServerWorks - cdrom
pci promise fasttrak card being used in non-raid mode - 2 drives
AECxxxx pci card - 2 drives
(With redhat 8 I was running SW raid 5 across the 4 drives).
So I'm looking at:
Forcing the system to use the newer symbios 2 driver in case
it is the onboard scsi causing the problem
Try permutations of ide drives turned off to see if one of the 2
IDE cards is causing the problem.
Try a custom kernel using 2.4.21-*, tried it before and did not help.
I've upgraded to all the latest redhat updates, no change in behaviour.
More information on my system and testing: PDC20267 IDE card, UDMA disabled AEC6280R IDE card Onboard Symbios scsi is sym53c1010-33. If the promise card has no drives, system boots just fine, doesn't matter what is on the AEC6280R card. So some sort of problem with the promise driver it seems. I did notice that during boot that UDMA is enabled on the promise card if no drives attached. This seems strange. I put the 2 drives on the onboard IDE (the reason they weren't there in the first place is that I had major problems in early 2.4 kernels with data corruption on the onboard chains). System boots fine, but the raid doesn't come up on the ide drives due to different ordering of the disks. I'm going to look at getting another IDE card to replace the promise, esp. as others seem to have various problems with them. Though why I didn't see this on earlier redhat, even with custom kernels? 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/ |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: After installing the version of RedHat Linux downloaded from the ftp server, while booting, the system hangs. When displaying the message "Finding Module Dependencies", the system stops, the disk light is off and there is no response to any keyboard action. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install system (either local, workstation or server configurations) 2. Boot Additional info: