Description of problem: During boot of install CD (x86_64 and i686) Loading ata_piix fails Oops 0002 [#1] Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL4 B2 both x86_64 and i686 fail. RHEL4 B1 is OK How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot machine with CD installed 2. 3. Actual results: Load of ata_piix fails Expected results: Normal install screens Additional info:
System is a Dell 670 workstation The motherboard on these systems has the new Intel E7525 chipset that requires ICH5R SATA drivers - hence ata_piix From the screen during the CD boot - RHEL4-Beta2-i386-WS-disc1.iso Loading ata_piix Oops 0002 [#1] Modules linked in : ata_piix libata e1000 ..... Unable to identify CD-Rom format. [ata-piix] [<c013e04c>] sys_init_module +0x207/0x2ef [<c030a057>] syscall_call +0x7/0xb Code 85 04 04 00 00 85 ed 77 0d 8b 47 28 83 c0 10 e8 82 01 00 00 89 c5 8b 47 28 8d 57 ic 83 c0 08 89 47 1c 8b 48 04 89 4a 04 <89> 11 8b 47 28 8b 18 8d 4b 48 89 c8 ba ff ff 00 00 0f c1 10 0f
Booting the CD and using linux rescue noprobe allowed me to load the drivers individually. Loading ata_piix caused a failure (as expected) Booting the CD again Loading the scsi driver aic79xx loaded ok but did not find the scsi disks. Using the Beta1 cds and loading aic79xx found the scsi disks. Suggestion - The Beta 2 CDs have down level BOOT drivers ?
this should have been fixed in RC, and subsequent builds.