Description of problem: Initially I attempted to install FC3 but it exited abnormally during the install so I upgraded all the firmware for the system BIOS,RAID controller, server backplane and attempted the install again with the same results. RH9 had previoulsy been installed on this server with a different set of drives so I did a fresh install of RH9 to see if it also had a problem. It did not so I configured some of the services I needed and decided to see if an upgrade to FC3 would work but it failed again. I finally attempted FC4 upgrade and it initiallly failed but on a second attempt it began installing RPMs and when it got to the kernel RPM the install exitied abnormally. During a text-mode installation the screen begins spewing errors about the RPMDB being a read-only file system and the server freezes. Upon a third attempt the kernel packages install but then the installer exited abnormally and gave an andaconda dump file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible:Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot from CDROM 2.Select Upgrade from RH9 or FC4 Actual results: The text screen begins to display a blur of failed attempts to install RPMs or during the install of RPMs the installer exits abnormally Expected results: A complete installation Additional info: PowerEdge 2400 Dual Processor 500mhz Pentium III (Coppermine) 512MB RAM Embedded Server Management v5.39 System Backplane v5.47 RAID-5 Container 164GB disk space NEC CDROM SCSI I used the integrated SCSI controller and an Adaptec 2940 PCI controller for the CDROM. I also used an external Toshiba SCSI CDROM. The results were the same with either setup.
Created attachment 121823 [details] Andaconda Dump File
I attempted another install and switched consoles when the install began to fail and noted the following error: <3> scsi1 (0:0) rejecting I/O to offline device I found this URL on the issue http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/14/252 The aacraid driver should be the latest one since I am using FC4.
The Perc2/si controller BIOS is 2.84 Build 6098. I opened DMESG and it makes a reference to the SCSI device using a depreciated SCSI ioctl to convert it to SG_IO
installation issues are tricky, as a kernel update isn't really any help to you. However the bug I'm duping this against has a pointer to some unofficial FC4.2 ISO's which are FC4+updates. That may have a new enough kernel to have this fixed. Good luck. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169613 ***