Bug 98111
| Summary: | RH 8.0 installation hangs on aic7xxx | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | jose contreras <jcvega247> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-06-27 20:33:11 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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Fixed this problem. It turns out it was purely hardware related. Loaded Knoppix 3.2 for troubleshooting, and ran it in failsafe, and it still hung on aic7xxx.o. I didn't notice that one of the drives didn't have a size next to its name. Tried to format, didn't let me, some error appeared. Finally, I disconnected 1(out of 2) hard drives one at a time. One of them (the one that wouldn't give information or let me format) is obviously to blame. It was trying to read this faulty drive that made it hang. Knoppix is a really good troubleshooting tool, I must say. Thanks, -Jose Glad you figured it out! |
Description of problem:Intallation hangs on loading aic7xxx driver (error message shown below). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):Redhat 8.0 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Load Redhat 8.0 Disc 2. 3. Actual results: Installation hangs Expected results: OS installation Additional info: Adaptec AHA-2910 BUi / AIC-7860 SCSI BIOS v1.31s6 NET SERVER E 45 Hewlett Packard, Pentium 2 266MHz, BIOS version 4.05.05 PI, system RAM 160MB Error Message after pressing ALT-F4: <4>sda : Spinning up disk............{ 2 lines of dots }......not responding... <4>sda : READ CAPACITY FAILED. <4>sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 00 <4>sda : current sd00: sns = 70 2 <4>ASC= 4 ASCQ= 1 <4>Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x18 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x04 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 <4>sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. <6>Partition check: <6> sda: At this point the prompt becomes active but of course no installation. I switched controllers which are supposedly identical, and problem was the same. Not sure what exactly is to blame though...on booting, the cd-rom drive is identified. I also tried to install Mandrake 9.1 and exact error ocurred.