Bug 187203 - install fails to start.
Summary: install fails to start.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-29 05:45 UTC by Richard Hally
Modified: 2008-08-02 23:40 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: F8
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-04-04 16:57:12 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
messages about the chipset and the CD-RW drive (2.38 KB, application/octet-stream)
2006-03-30 19:57 UTC, Richard Hally
no flags Details

Description Richard Hally 2006-03-29 05:45:55 UTC
Description of problem: Install fails to start. After entering <enter> at the
"boot:" prompt to start a graphical install, the kernel loads, then the last two
lines shown are:
"running install...
running /sbin/loader"
and then there is no further activity.

If I type "linux ide=nodma" at the boot: prompt, the installation proceeds as
expected.

hardware is Pentium IV 3.2Ghz with H/T on a MSI mobo with the SIS chipset and a
Samsung CD-RW. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
every time



Steps to Reproduce:
1.Put a known good FC5 CD1 in the drive
2.power up the box
3.when the initial install screen appears with the boot: prompt,
press <enter>

  
Actual results:
install stops at: " running /sbin/loader"

Expected results:
first screen of the graphical install.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Alan Cox 2006-03-29 23:47:28 UTC
Can you tell me which SiS chipset and which CD-RW model please. Also any
messages that appear would be useful (probably on screen 4 (hit F1,F2,F3.. etc
to get the different screens))


Comment 2 Richard Hally 2006-03-30 19:54:32 UTC
from the F4 screen (hand copy):
<6> ide-cd: cmd 0x28 timed out
<4> DMA timeout retry
<-> timeout waiting for DMA
<-> status timeout: status=0xd0 {busy}
<-> failed op code was: unknown
<-> drive not ready for command
<-> ATAPI complete

this repeates 4 times about 60 second apart. 
after the 4+ minuits there were other messages so I switched back to F1 and ther
e was the beginning of the install.

the attachment has some info from "messages" about the chipset and the CD-RW drive.


Comment 3 Richard Hally 2006-03-30 19:57:00 UTC
Created attachment 127070 [details]
messages about the chipset and the CD-RW drive

Comment 4 Dave Jones 2006-10-16 20:31:39 UTC
A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5)
based upon a new upstream kernel release.

Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches
go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that
may address this problem.

This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO state.
Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is
still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed.

Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter
can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list
of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a
comment to the bug.

In the last few updates, some users upgrading from FC4->FC5
have reported that installing a kernel update has left their
systems unbootable. If you have been affected by this problem
please check you only have one version of device-mapper & lvm2
installed.  See bug 207474 for further details.

If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the
release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613.

If this bug has been fixed, but you are now experiencing a different
problem, please file a separate bug for the new problem.

Thank you.

Comment 5 Richard Hally 2006-11-01 18:28:09 UTC
The first attempt at installing FC6(final) on this same box resulted in the same
problem. Adding ide=nodma resulted in installation starting. Looks like this bug
is still there.
I plan to install FC6 onto another disk on this system and will attempt to
gather any additional messages at that time.

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 02:20:35 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

If you're currently running a version of Fedora Core between 1 and 6,
please note that Fedora no longer maintains these releases. We strongly
encourage you to upgrade to a current Fedora release. In order to
refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs
for releases which are no longer maintained and closing them.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle/EOL

If this bug is still open against Fedora Core 1 through 6, thirty days
from now, it will be closed 'WONTFIX'. If you can reporduce this bug in
the latest Fedora version, please change to the respective version. If
you are unable to do this, please add a comment to this bug requesting
the change.

Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled
these issues to this point.

The process we are following is outlined here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp

We will be following the process here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this
doesn't happen again.

And if you'd like to join the bug triage team to help make things
better, check out http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers

Comment 7 Richard Hally 2008-04-04 03:40:16 UTC
go ahead and close this one!


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