Bug 104687 - Vaio PCMCIA installer fails on old sony cd
Summary: Vaio PCMCIA installer fails on old sony cd
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-09-19 04:41 UTC by Christopher Seaman
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:03 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-01-11 01:03:27 UTC
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Description Christopher Seaman 2003-09-19 04:41:02 UTC
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Description of problem:
Using an (admittedly old) Vaio r505zx the installer fails to recognize the 
PCMCIA sony cdrom.  This problem persists even when using 
the 'ide2=0x180,0x386 cdrom=hde', 'nopcmcia', and 'noprobe' options in various 
permutations.

after these steps you get stuck in the can't find device, do you need to load 
a driver messages

install worked with RH9 (running now)

workaround would probably be to run a net install, but that seems a bit 

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.get an old vaio
2.use the (matchingly old) sony pcmcia cdrom (pcga-cd5) to install
3.no go.
    

Actual Results:  stuck in the need to load a driver text messages

Expected Results:  graphical install process

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2003-09-19 10:59:05 UTC
in addition to 'ide2=0x180,0x386' you also need 'pci=off' as noted in the
release notes.  It would be nice to get this fixed properly at some point, so we
get back to previous behaviour.


Comment 2 Dave Jones 2004-11-20 02:02:51 UTC
how do current releases behave ?

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2005-01-11 01:03:27 UTC
closing due to inactivity.



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