From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: I have an ASUS P4G8X motherboard which is using its Silicon Image striped RAID array (2 drives of 250GB each). Both Fedora Core 1 and Fedora Core 2 test1 crash when attempting to set the hostname upon booting. Hitting "Show Details" on the grey boot up screen shows nothing before the crash. This never happened to me before on the same hardware until I made use of the RAID functions on my Motherboard. Since then, Fedora won't boot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Booting Fedore Core 2 test1 2. 3. Actual Results: Kernal boots up, and the grey Fedora screen appears with the PC picutre, and swirling dots indicating init working. The screen then displays that it is "Setting hostname". Then the swilring dots stop and the system crashes completely. Mouse is inactive. Expected Results: The system should have completed initialising. Additional info: I suspect my RAID is causing the crash. Fedora Core 1 worked before I installed a RAID. Since installing the RAID, neither Fedora 1 or Fedora Core 2 test1 boots up.
Sorry, my motherboard is the P4G(X deluxe, which has the RAID built in
Re-tested and verified that it is the P4G8X-Deluxe built in SATA RAID functions that are causing the crash. I unplugged my hard drives from the Serial-ATA RAID plugs and rebooted Fedora Core 2 test1 and the boot completed (although there were a few other bugs)
Assigning to the kernel, the problem lies there if the raid driver is crashing it.
I tried playing with the acpi and apm during boot. Turning them both off doesn't fix the problem. What I did notice is that the linux kernel relegates the RAID to IRQ 9, but when I select the SMP kernel on my Hyper Threading P4, the IRQs get set to 209 (!!). Interestingly, IRQ 9 totally crashes my machine outright. IRQ 209 still crashes it and locks up the mouse, but the grey init screen swirling dots keep moving. I have not tampered with my motherboard's BIOS.... but it seems the IRQ table the BIOS shows, displays that a lot of Serial and Multimedia devices are spead over IRQ 9. It seems that the Linux kernel is misappropriating IRQs on my hardware setup. I loaded up Knoppix on this machine, and noticed that sound no longer worked on it once RAID had been connected. So I'm lead to believe that this issue may be IRQ related in the linux kernel. Windows works no problems. It seems to relegate the RAID drives to IRQ 23/24
You may want to try "acpi=off"
any better with the 2.6.9 update ?
I went and tried FC3 and found that installation and booting works now without any problems. I haven't tried accessing the drives under FC3 (they are NTFS formatted anyway), but there are no crashes anymore. Problem solved.