Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 125403
Boot fails when there are more than four IDE devices
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:44 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: The install CD failes to boot when there are more than four IDE devices (for example two CD drives, one ATA drive and two SATA drives like I have). So the install CD kernel must be missconfigured. It doesn't support the enhanced IDE properly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set enhanced IDE on in your BIOS 2. Connect more than four IDE devices 3. Try to boot the FC1 or FC2 install CD1 Actual Results: I see only a blinking "-". Expected Results: The CD should boot normally. Additional info: Actually this bug applies to FC1 too but I thought it's better to file it against the new FC2. I can use more than four IDE devices with Fedora Core 1 after the install. So this bug applies only to the install CD kernel. It should be easy to check what's the difference between the install CD kernel configuration and the Fedora Core kernel configuration. So the fix should be easy too. Hint from my expreriences: It works if you switch off "Sharing PCI IDE interrupts support" in the "IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices" part. Maybe that's the difference between the kernel configurations.
Where does it fail? After isolinux loads the kernel, when isolinux is starting, somewhere else entirely?
At the very beginning when isolinux is starting. Is see only a blinking "-", nothing else.
Is FC3 test any better?
Yes! Fedora Core 3 Test 2 works! Thank you! Good job!