From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: During installation, when Anaconda is loading sata_sil driver, kernel oopses: PCI0 USB1 USB2 USB3 EHCI UAR1 AC9 MC9 ILAN SLPB ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k freed Oops: 0002 [#1] Modules linked in: sata_sil libata ohci1394 ieee1394 uhci_hcd ehci_hcd sr_mod sd_mod scsi_mod pcspkr edd floppy loop nfs lockd sunrpc vfat fat cramfs vga16fb vgastate CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<e89d444e>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4) EIP is at sil_init_one+0x1be/0x340 [sata_sil] eax: 00000002 ebx: dff85c00 ecx: 08000002 edx: dfcfaf23 esi: e89d0e00 edi: e7800478 ebp: e89d5dc0 esp: dfcfaf28 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process loader (pid: 480, threadinfo=dfcfa000 task=dfc7a000) Stack: 0000000a e780048c 00000002 e89d46b0 e7800400 e89d5ea0 dff85c00 e89d5ecc 00000000 c0211575 dff85c00 e89d5ea0 c02115b0 e89d5ea0 dff85c00 c02115db e89d5ecc dff85c44 c027d3e1 dff85c4c c03c9930 c027d509 c03c98a4 c03c9840 Call Trace: [<c0211575>] pci_device_probe_static+0x25/0x40 [<c02115b0>] __pci_device_probe+0x20/0x30 [<c02115db>] pci_device_probe+0x1b/0x40 [<c027d3e1>] driver_probe_device+0x21/0x60 [<c027d509>] driver_attach+0x49/0x80 [<c027d961>] bus_add_driver+0x81/0xb0 [<c02117d9>] pci_register_driver+0x89/0xa0 [<c0145853>] sys_init_module+0xb3/0x1b0 [<c01039d9>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: 00 00 85 ff 0f 85 e9 00 00 00 89 d8 e8 cc fb ff ff 84 c0 0f 84 c2 00 00 00 c0 e8 03 40 25 ff 00 00 00 88 46 40 88 46 41 88 46 44 <88> 86 41 02 00 00 ba 00 00 c0 00 83 7d 18 01 0f 84 3e 01 00 00 <6>via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker I have two SATA disks (Seagate ST 3160827AS and ST 3160023AS) connected to the PCI SATA controller with Sil3112 chipset. FC3 and Ubuntu 5.04 work fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert FC4 installation DVD 2. start installation bu hitting enter 3. Actual Results: Anaconda crashes after loading sata_sil driver. Additional info:
[This comment has been added as a mass update for all FC4 kernel bugs. If you have migrated this bug from an FC3 bug today, ignore this comment.] Please retest your problem with todays 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 update. If your problem involved being unable to boot, or some hardware not being detected correctly, please make sure your /etc/modprobe.conf is correct *BEFORE* installing any kernel updates. If in doubt, you can recreate this file using.. mv /etc/sysconfig/hwconf /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.bak mv /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf.bak kudzu Thank you.
> Please retest your problem with todays 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 update. > > If your problem involved being unable to boot, or some hardware not being > detected correctly, please make sure your /etc/modprobe.conf is correct *BEFORE* > installing any kernel updates. > If in doubt, you can recreate this file using.. > > mv /etc/sysconfig/hwconf /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.bak > mv /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf.bak > kudzu Hi, I have exactly same trouble. Anaconda crashes when loading sata_sil driver. FC2 and WinXP work OK. I have one SATA drive (Maxtor 160GB) connected to the PCI SATA controller (ST-Lab) with Sil3112 chipset. I would like to try update mentioned above, but I dont know how if I cant install the system... Could you give me some advice? Thanx. Kokoska Rokoska
I encountered the same trouble of kernel oops with sata_sil.ko version 0.9 included in the DVD distribution 'FC4-i386-DVD.iso'. I compared the source file sata_sil.c with the latest source in kernel 2.6.12.5, and I found two additions to the file. This kernel module is probably the one that was used in kernel v2.6.12-rc5 (see 'http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/12- rc5/drivers/scsi/sata_sil.c') This kernel oops problem has been identified and resolved on release of kernel 2.6.12 (see the message issued by Mr. Linus Torvalds to the kernel mailing list at 'http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/1/message/80826/thread'.) To install Fedora Core 4, I have to modify the iso image in Windows XP, and use Fedora Core 3 boot disk to start the installation process with option: linux askmethod and choose harddisk as the source of installtion iso. Two files were replaced in 'FC4-i386-DVD.iso' as follows: - overwrite kernel package 'kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.i686.rpm' inside /Fedora/ RPMS with updated kernel 'kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4.i686.rpm' available in Fedora Download site. - overwrite the boot image 'stage2.img' inside /Fedora/base with that of Fedora Core 3 boot disk. It is required as this image file should match with the boot disk. 'Fedora Core 4' was installed on my machine without a hitch, and I have performed the long and tedious 273MB yum update. Best regards, Tommy Lee
http://fedora.isphuset.no/ contains an unofficial Fedora 4.1, which may get you up and running, as it has a install kernel based on one of the errata kernels.