Description of problem: I'm trying to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 beta 1 in a Dell PowerEdge 750 equipped with 2 SATA harddisks with 250GB operating in RAID-1 (Dell CERC RAID controller). After pressing OK in the screen "Select the appropriate keyboard for the system", a popup box appears with the title "Error" and saying "Error opening /dev/sda: No such adevice or address". When I hit "Retry" nothing happens and when I hit "Cancel" the installation proceeds but then when I try to create partitions the same error box appears. I already managed to install Windows 2000 in the same machine only to check if there was any problem with the disk/RAID configuration. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: I already tried in another PowerEdge 750 with the same disk configuration and the same problem happenned. So, it suffices to try to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 beta 1 in any PowerEdge 750 with the same configuration. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert Red Hat CD 1 2. Follow setup normal steps 3. Actual results: After pressing OK in the screen "Select the appropriate keyboard for the system", a popup box appears with the title "Error" and saying "Error opening /dev/sda: No such adevice or address". When I hit "Retry" nothing happens and when I hit "Cancel" the installation proceeds but then when I try to create partitions the same error box appears. Expected results: System being installed without problems. Additional info:
Also managed to install Whitebox Enterprise Edition 3.0 respin 1 in the same machine without any problem.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135484 ***
Whoops, that should just be 'see also bug 135484'.
I think it's not exactly the same bug, because Fedora 2 also shows me the same error.
This bug is related to an Adaptec (aacraid) card. 135484 is a megaraid card...
And Fedora Core 3 cannot be installed on this platform. After the keyboard selection screen, a error dialog box with "Error opening /dev/sda: No such device or address" appears. Just like RHEL4 above. Dell PE750 (A02 BIOS) with Dell CERC 1.5/6ch SATA RAID 1 card (v4.1-0 firmware) using aacraid driver. Ctrl-Alt-F2 at Welcome to Fedora screen allows me to see the following: # grep aacraid /proc/modules aacraid 45809 1 - Live 0xe0909000 scsi_mod 119313 4 libata,aacraid,sr_mod,sd_mod, Live 0xe0958000 # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 7 0 72820 loop0 8 0 78091136 sda 8 1 56196 sda1 # fdisk -l <no output> Any reference to /dev/sda or /dev/sda1 results in "No such device or address" error.
I have successfully installed FC2 on my PE750. This is with the default 2.6.5 kernel FC2 shipped with. If I try and run 2.6.8 or 2.6.9 kernels from the FC2 updates the system locks up with a siren on the CERC board sounding continously. The non-working kernels are kernel-smp-2.6.8-1.521.i686 and kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.i686. The CERC card behaves differently depending on its state (Building/Verifying or Optimal). In the B/V state drive access from new kernels just fail. In Optimal state the siren sounds...
The fix for this bug is posted here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=110252243627410&w=2 This patch was checked in to RHEL 4 RC and FC3 last night. This BZ has been set to modified.
Patch confirmed in latest kernels, so closing this out. Please reopen if the problem still occurs with most recent code.
I have just downloaded the latest, and the problems persist... I am still looking for a solution... I will post back if I find something.
actually, If I were to read all the comments, I would see that there is a patch... sorry about that...