From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040308 Description of problem: I get through most of the install of FC3 just to the point where the drives are about to be partitioned and then the system totally hangs. Have tried installing from a SCSI CD-ROM and an ATAPI CD-ROM with same results. As long as the AHA-2940UW is involved, the install fails. Replaced AHA-2940UW with a Symbios 22801 and all works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Ensure AHA-2940UW in a PCI slot and SCSI drive attached 2.Attempt to install FC3 3. Actual Results: Install hangs at disk partitioning Expected Results: Complete install of FC3 and happy user. Additional info: Install of SuSe 9.2 with exact same hardware config succeeds smoothly!
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.
A possibly related data point is that the same SCSI card (pci 9004:8178) now fails to boot with the 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3(smp) kernel. It has worked fine with the entire 2.6.11 stream of fc3 kernels. The default initrd image fails to boot - one time with references to undefined symbols from spi_*. A hand-made initrd image, including both aic7xxx and aic7xxx_old, still fails to scan the bus, and thus the kernel boot aborts when it tries to mount "/". The kernel paniced in such a way as to make impossible transcription of the errors here.
This bug has been automatically closed as part of a mass update. It had been in NEEDINFO state since July 2005. If this bug still exists in current errata kernels, please reopen this bug. There are a large number of inactive bugs in the database, and this is the only way to purge them. Thank you.