Bug 119052 - Installer doesn't find HP SmartArray 5i disk on Proliant DL380
Summary: Installer doesn't find HP SmartArray 5i disk on Proliant DL380
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-03-24 14:36 UTC by Maarten van Gelder
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-08-15 16:04:05 UTC
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Description Maarten van Gelder 2004-03-24 14:36:26 UTC
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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.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-03-27 19:52:37 UTC
Fixed post test1 (and then the kernel changed and broke my probing
again, which is why the development tree is broken again, filed
separately)

Comment 2 Andreas de Pretis 2005-06-22 09:00:26 UTC
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.


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