Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 119052
Installer doesn't find HP SmartArray 5i disk on Proliant DL380
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:38 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; T312461) Description of problem: Installation of Fedora Core 2 (version 1.90) on a HP SmartArray 5i disk on a Proliant DL380 G3 system fails. Booting from the CD with 'linux' hangs on loading the cciss driver. The log suggests to use acpi=off. Retrying with 'linux acpi=off' runs further, but fails later on. The boot log then shows that the installer loads the cciss driver, but the installer complains that it cannot find the hard disk. Looking in the system (console 2) shows that the cciss specific devices in /dev are absent. After creating the /dev/cciss/c0d0* entries with mknod fdisk sees the hard disk and after a mount it also is readable. After these extra actions the installation still aborts because it doesn't find a hard disk. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot the boot.iso CD for Fedora Core 2 2.boot: linux acpi=off 3.Install media: doesn't matter NFS from a local system with copies of the CDs (before 23 March). FTP development package (23 March) from a mirror Actual Results: Complains about the missing hard disk. Expected Results: Install on my local hard disk. Additional info: The installation of Fedora Core 1 runned successfully. We didn't need the acpi=off there. But we need Fedora Core 2 because of the kernel 2.6 support for file system > 1T byte.
Fixed post test1 (and then the kernel changed and broke my probing again, which is why the development tree is broken again, filed separately)
We did have this problem with FC4 on a Proliant DL380 G2 too. Using acpi=off as suggested above seems to solve the problem and the system boots without further problems.