Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 140572
error during read on /dev/hda
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:55 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: Installing from ISO images; installation disk passes media check. Box is Compaq Pressario 6000 w/ AMD 1800+ processor (utter vanilla cheap Compaq box). System currently has RedHat 8.0 installed that runs without any problems. After selecting keyboard, installation hangs for about a minute, then reports "Input/output error during read on /dev/hda". After reboot, the boot rom self test fails (can't see hard disk). This persists until cleared by cycling power. The problem is reproducable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora Core 3 (IA32) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot first installation disk 2. Pick mouse 3. Pick keyboard Actual Results: Dialog box "Input/out error during read on /dev/hda". Subsequence reboot fails in self test without a power cycle. Expected Results: I presume Fedora would have installed itself... Additional info:
do you still have RHL8 installed ? Can you try the following things ? - output of fdisk -l /dev/hda (as root) - try dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null and see if it completes without errors. if you dont have rhl8 installed still, you can get to a tty by booting the installer to the graphical stage, then hitting ctrl-alt-f2
Sorry for the delay -- I assumed I'd hear by email if you needed anything. RH8 is still installed. Here is the listing you requested: [root@ernie jas]# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 5174 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 14 105808+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 15 3622 27276480 83 Linux /dev/hda3 3623 4941 9971640 83 Linux /dev/hda4 4942 5174 1761480 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 4942 5010 521608+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 5011 5148 1043248+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 5149 5174 196528+ 82 Linux swap [root@ernie jas]# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null 78242976+0 records in 78242976+0 records out [root@ernie jas]#
No immediate ideas. Would need to know chipset and drive type to go further. Can you attach lspci -vxx and hdparm -I /dev/hda (off RH8 is fine) Alan
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.