Description of problem: When trying to install RHEL 4 Beta 2 on an Intel server (SCB2SCSI, 2 CPU install and SRCMR RAID controller), system hang on âLoading gdth driver ...â. I only tried with RHEL4-Beta2-i386-AS-disc1. Will other versions of RHEL 4 (ES, WS or desktop) change something ? Feel free to reassign component if a more suitable one exist for this problem (maybe kernel issue ?). How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Press <ENTER> to start graphical install. Actual results: System hang. Additional info: Same behaviour on RHEL Beta 1 and Fedora Core 3. System works fine with other OS (other Linux distributions or ...) so it shouldn't be related to hardware issue.
> Will other versions of RHEL 4 (ES, WS or desktop) change something ? No, they use the same kernel. > System works fine with other OS (other Linux distributions or ...) Have you tried other 2.6 Linux kernels? I suspect the problem may be with the gdth driver in 2.6. It is not very widely used anymore. A problem was fixed recently with gdth on a large memory system. How much memory does your system have?
Have you tried other 2.6 Linux kernels? > Yes, I used Mandrake 10.0 Official (kernel: 2.6.3.7). My system isn't a large memory system (it actually have 2 Gbytes of RAM). Is there a command I can issue to figure out what driver Mandrake is using (I'm no to familiar with Linux) ?
The driver will print its version number when it is loaded. Have a look at dmesg after boot, or /var/log/messages. This may not be much help because I doubt the version number has been incremented lately, but if you could post that whole section from the log it might be helpful.
Created attachment 107110 [details] Log from power-up to GDT init (from Mandrake 10.0)
Is this still open? I'm getting this with U1 install, and I'm currently downloading the U3 isos, but I think this should either be closed if it's resolved or somebody should have fixed it if it isn't!
I do not have a gdth adapter to test with, so this BZ has languished. Let know your results. Would you be able to try a patch? The easiest way would be to boot off some other hardware, then test the gdth.