From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040116 Description of problem: Well, the L440GX+ bug is still not fixed. Booting up the test2 install CD on a L440GX+ dual-Xeon system (fortunately not hit by the test2 installer CD boot bug ;-)) and it hangs at "Loading SCSI driver" with message "Loading aic7xxx driver..." Some stuff i see in the virt consoles: The Alt-F3 console: i see "loaded mii", "loaded e100", "loaded aic7xxx" but then only "inserted mii" and "inserted e100" but no "inserted aic7xxx" (i'm not quoting exactly). The Alt-F4 console: i see the beginning of the SCSI driver messages, like the first 3 or 4 lines or so, but that's where it hangs, it doesn't detect any devices, or anything. It just hangs, and that's pretty much it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot up test2 on a L440GX+ system 2. 3. Actual Results: The installer hangs when loading up the SCSI driver. Expected Results: The installer should not hang. Additional info:
Does acpi=force fix this ? - or test3. The Intel guys were submitting a fix upstream for the pirq routing bug.
With acpi=force, i can boot up FC2test3 just fine. It's just the installer that needs the parameter. Once installed, it makes no difference whether i use the parameter or not, it works anyway. It's a dual-CPU PIII, if that has any importance.
Thanks.. should get fixed entirely with the upstream intel change then. The bit that matters is the chipset. We had a bug in dealing with it in non ACPI mode due to a little difference of design opinion between it and the kernel. 2.4 got a fix, 2.6 slipped it.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107880 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.