Description of problem: FC7 test4 CD/DVD hangs with message "Ready" after loading the kernel. The installer starts if i unplug the sata-drive! Also no problem with pata-drives. I've this on several boards. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Any FC6.93 (i386) boot media How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use any FC6.93 boot media 2. Boot 3. System hangs with message: "Ready" Actual results: Expected results: Media should boot normally. Additional info:
Boards are all ASUS-A7V600(-X).
All FC6 (Zod) media are booting correctly.
If have exactly the same issue with the images from Fedora-7-RC2.
There is a way to install Fedora 7 on ASUS-A7V600(-X) (maybe other) boards with any sata drives connected. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! Unplug any sata drives. When the kernel is loading, plug in (hotplug) the drive. Then everything is working. ;o)
This bug seems to be extant for the install on the final release F7 i386 DVD ISO.
Please see here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=801772#post801772
Please feel free to reopen this bug. But i don't know whether it make sense, becauce fc7 is released...
I don't seem to have the permission to do that,
I am seeing this same problem, attempting to boot the Fedora 7 installation DVD on a Dell Dimension 5150. The kernel load completes the "Ready." prompt and just hangs. Can this bug be reopened, or is there another entry tracking this bug?
Just adding myself as a 'me too'. Similiar system to Wes previously; Dell Dimension 5150, BIOS rev A05, pentium D 945, 2GB ram; Fedora 7 x64 DVD install. System halts at 'ready' (caps lock light stops working which is my usual 'dead machine' test). I have 2* SATA disks holding an FC6 install that I'm looking to upgrade, so unplugging them is not an option. Some forum posts have indicated playing around with grub options maxcpus=1 and/or clocksource=acpi_pm may help so I'll give that a pop. I'll also try a http install and post back. Any information I can provide to help?
Hey, Same exact problem as others. Dell Dimension 5150, one SATA drive. FC6 installed no problem.
Looks like this bug report got closed by the original bug report but folks are still facing this issue in Fedora 7. Reopening.
Just to report that after walking through several BIOS revisions on by dell 5150, (I am now on A07) I managed to get the install going by creating a USB boot disk using the boot.img provided on the F7 download page. Booting from this allows me proceed to the install/upgrade from DVD. I haven't actually had time to /do/ the upgrade yet, but this seems a viable workaround. Barry
Having the same issue on a Dell Dimension E510 running only a single SATA drive. Have tried both the F7 Live CD and the F7 DVD on two different E510 machines. Kris Linville RHCT
I had this same problem with f7 install media not booting on my Dell Dimension 5150. I was asked to try "edd=skipmbr" on the kernel command line. I tried it and now the kernel is booting and installing f7.
Just to report my system was successfully upgraded over the weekend using the 'boot from USB stick, install from DVD' method. I have some dependencies to work out and had to poke grub a little to get a clean boot but I'm pretty sure that's my fault. Barry
the problem is not fixed in fedora 8 test 1.
adding "edd=skipmbr" to the kernel command line is working with fedora 8 test 1. should it be a standard value?
This bug should be fixed in upstream kernels now, and in the latest rawhide/development kernels.
the problem seems not fixed in fedora 8 test 2. with adding "edd=skipmbr" to the kernel command line the kernel is booting. it should be fixed asap!
(In reply to comment #20) > the problem seems not fixed in fedora 8 test 2. with adding "edd=skipmbr" to the > kernel command line the kernel is booting. it should be fixed asap! Bug is still there? What kind of hardware is it?
(In reply to comment #20) > the problem seems not fixed in fedora 8 test 2. with adding "edd=skipmbr" to the > kernel command line the kernel is booting. it should be fixed asap! ...and does the latest rawhide boot.iso print anything at all? There is new debug code in there now.
It is also not booting with the latest boot.iso (09/13/2007). the new debug code is: .............................................. Ready. Booting: ABCDEFGHIJ The hardware: ASUS-A7V600(-X) SONY DVD RW DRU-700a SEAGATE SATA ST3160828AS
I also get the same output: Booting: ABCDEFGHIJ on my Dell Dimension 5150
*** Bug 251724 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 195991 [details] Proposed patch for testing Can someone please try the attached patch and see if it fixes the problem?
kernel with the patch is building now; people with this problem please test tomorrow's rawhide boot disks.
the kernel from boot.iso (09/14/2007) does also not boot with the same output: .............................................. Ready. Booting: ABCDEFGHIJ
(In reply to comment #28) > the kernel from boot.iso (09/14/2007) does also not boot with the same output: > > .............................................. > Ready. > Booting: ABCDEFGHIJ (In reply to comment #27) > kernel with the patch is building now; people with this problem please test > tomorrow's rawhide boot disks. I downloaded the 20070915 boot.iso this morning and tried it. I got, ABCDEFHIJ0 that's a zero on the end and no G this time My computer is a Dell Dimension XPS T600. A PIII, 600Mhz. I don't have a SATA drive but I do have a VESA video card (I think).
(In reply to comment #29) I looked at your code for the patch. I know I don't know what is going on there but it looks like you iterating over the drives? Could having a CD, Floppy and a ZIP drive cause a problem?
same here, the kernel from boot.iso (09/15/2007) does also not boot with the output: .............................................. Ready. Booting: ABCDEFGHIJ0
(In reply to comment #31) > same here, the kernel from boot.iso (09/15/2007) does also not boot with the output: > > .............................................. > Ready. > Booting: ABCDEFGHIJ0 sorry, G is also missing here.
Exactly the same on Dell Dimension 5150. ABCDEFHIJ0 (and no G). One thing the Dell Dimension 5150 have is a memory card reader that can read lots of different kinds of memory cards. No memory card inserted. It's probably not related to the boot problem, but I thought i'd mention it anyway just in case. /Dennis
(In reply to comment #33) > Exactly the same on Dell Dimension 5150. ABCDEFHIJ0 (and no G). > Failed on disk 0
Help urgently needed: I need at least one volunteer with a failing system to do tight-loop debugging on this problem, which means wait for me to make an image, test something out, report back, and repeat. We're already past rc6, so the issue is extremely urgent. Please email me directly.
Rez Kabir - critical Fedora / kernel.org bug with EDD on Dimension 5150 and E510. Please assist in reproducing and debugging ASAP. Thanks, Matt
The latest rawhide boot disk has extended debugging added for this problem. Can someone please test it?
using download.fedora.redhat.com/linux/development/x86_64/os/images/boot.iso (DaT 19/Sep/2007, MD5 23a40911550ddbc21ebfeac33f1b92be). Reboot into this and I get the following: *very* briefly see F1/F2/F3 boot options, then get into the Grub menu. At this point I lose keyboard input, something I hadn't noticed before (I am not renowned for observation skills to be fair). The grub menu timer continues to count down and autoselects 'Install/Upgrade existing system' after 60 seconds. System displays: loading vmlinuz... loading initrd.img... ready booting ABCDEFHJ Then follows some debug stuff. It's late, it's been a long week, and I almost certainly will introduce typos, so I've posted some grainy cellphone pics here: http://barry.freeshell.org/top.jpg http://barry.freeshell.org/bot.jpg I'll type these up tomorrow. Let me know what else I can try. I suppose the obvious is to strip all extraneous hardware out and give that a pop. cheers
Dell Dimension 5150: Ready. Booting: ABCDEFHIJ Device 8f80: calling Int 13 Fn 0x4100 ... result: ax=3000 bx=aa55 cx=5 dx=80 Calling Int 13 Fn 0x4800 with buffer @8f7e ... result: ax=0 dx=80 Calling Int 13 Fn 0x0800 ... result: ax=0 bx=5 cx=feff dx=fe02 di=0 Calling Int 13 Fn 0x0201 with buffer @4600 ... Then I waited a couple of minutes to see if there would come any more output, bit it didn't. No problem with keyboard. But I have access to another Dell computer at work (a fairly new E520) where the keyboard doesn't work in grub in FC7 (and it didn't work with this boot disk either). That computer however isn't mine and only run windows so I've not looked much at it. This is another bug however. Time to search for it in bugzilla and cc to it as well. One issue in each bug report!
Created attachment 200511 [details] Output of lspci lspci -v output from an affected 5150.
I've transcribed the pics I took last night now I've had sleep and coffee: +--------------------------------------------+ Device 8f80: calling int 13 fn 0x4100 ... result: ax=2100 bx=aa55 cx=1 dx=80 calling int 13 fn 0x4800 with buffer @8f6a ... result: ax=0 dx=80 calling int 13 fn 0x0800 ... result: ax=0 bx=1 cx=e7e0 dx=103 di=0 calling Int 13 Fn 0x201 with buffer @4600 ... result: ax=0 bx=4600 cx=1 dx=80 Device 3681: calling Int 13 Fn 0x4100 ... result: ax=3000 bx=aa55 cx=5 dx=81 Calling Int 13 Fn 0x4800 with buffer @8f6a ... result: ax=0 dx=81 Calling Int 13 Fn 0x0800 ... result: ax=0 bx=5 cx=feff dx=fe03 di=0 Calling Int 13 Fn 0x201 with buffer @4600 ... +--------------------------------------------+ I have two SATA disks (0 & 1). With: disk 0 only - boot fails disk 1 only - boot fails disk 0 in disk 1's place - boot fails disk 1 in disk 0's place - boot fails disk 0 and disk 1 out - boots fine, to the prompt for install media. Need to get to work, but I'll try with ide & maybe scsi disks later this evening and see what happens. Re the keyboard - Dennis is most likely correct, but I thought I'd mention it as it feels like an I/O thing. the kbd works fine before booting (so I can select a boot media) and, with no disks, after (so I can select a language).
Created attachment 200531 [details] output of asus av700-x with one sata-drive
It turns out that this isn't a kernel issue at all. Rather, it is an interaction between ISOLINUX (specifically, the ISOLINUX menu system) and the BIOS. If one holds down the Shift key to bring up the ISOLINUX prompt and launches the kernel from there, this bug isn't triggered. Most likely this is a BIOS bug, but it could be a SYSLINUX bug, and even if it is a BIOS bug, it might be possible to work around it in SYSLINUX. I have a system from Dell now which exhibits the problem, so I can start to look at it. In the meantime, this bug should be reassigned from kernel to syslinux.
Heh. I didn't know you could do that. This allows me to boot my 5150 directly from the F7 x64 DVD I originally had problems with, as well as the last 3 rawhide boot ISOs.
Bug identified and resolved. The fix is in syslinux 3.52-pre9, which hopefully will be released as 3.52 official in the next few days.
So we should wait for that before we try a new boot image? Or is the fix included in rawhide now before the official 3.52 fix?
(In reply to comment #43) Thanks very much. I've managed to load F7 (I had the DVD) on my computer with no problems. I'm sure that F8 will have no problems now.
I tried the boot.img from todays rawhide and it still didn't work. Was it supposed to work now?
(In reply to comment #48) > I tried the boot.img from todays rawhide and it still didn't work. Was it > supposed to work now? I imagine it is going to take a while. Have you got it running by pressing the SHIFT key?
Yes, it does work using the SHIFT key. I just wanted to make sure the fix get into fedora 8. The test 3 freeze is today. It would be nice to have a test 3 that work.
This still doesn't work in rawhide so I guess it will not work in test3 and then there is a big risk it wont work in fedora 8. Current rawhide still output the debug stuff (ABCDEF..)
This should really be in F8, I have also several users complaining about that and I was not able to explain this.
Added the patch for syslinux-3.36-6 (updating to syslinux-3.52 at this point is pretty risky). Can those experiencing problems test out the boot.iso from tomorrow's rawhide and see if it fixes the problem?
i find it unfortunate to see that it is also not working in f8test3. i hope really it will be fixed in fedora 8. you cannot say all the users to hold down the shift-key. current debug-output is: .............................................. Ready. Booting: ABCDEFHIJ
As Jeremy Katz wrote yesterday - try rawhide boot.iso from, the syslinux should be patched there - and this is not for all users, just a subset with certain configuration.
The boot.iso (03-Oct-2007 05:25) from the development-tree prints exactly the same output as in f8test3 on the ASUS-A7V600(-X) board: .............................................. Ready. Booting: ABCDEFHIJ
Didn't we get a new boot.iso yesterday? The file on the mirrors is from before Jeremy Katz added the patch. I'd love to try this to make sure fedora 8 work on my dell computers without hassle.
Sorry, yesterday's rawhide blew up during the compose. Today's is there and has the updated isolinux bits. And I've also gone ahead and grabbed it and put it up at http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/boot-20071005.iso [katzj@aglarond ~]$ sha1sum boot.iso a9c72fb8f66775be95a542c3cb3735a39ccd7038 boot.iso
(In reply to comment #58) > Sorry, yesterday's rawhide blew up during the compose. Today's is there and has > the updated isolinux bits. And I've also gone ahead and grabbed it and put it > up at http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/boot-20071005.iso > > [katzj@aglarond ~]$ sha1sum boot.iso > a9c72fb8f66775be95a542c3cb3735a39ccd7038 boot.iso > Nope, same autput as before.
The new boot.iso didn't work I'm afraid. It also got stuck at ABCDEFHIJ.
I am trying to install 1. Core 7.92 x86_64 2. ACER-Aspire 5100-5674 Laptop 3. AMD Athlon X2 64 I am not sure if anyone posted it here. Installation comes up fine. After each package installation I have to move the mouse/press some key to keep the installation pick the next package. Otherwise it hangs in the same packages. Thanks, Thanga Babu.
Why the problem in fc6 isn't there?
Current rawhide boot media seems to work for all the machines we've tried. Can you test with boot.iso from rawhide and confirm?
Not successfully here: .............................................. Ready. Booting: ABCDEFHIJ
Doesn't work here either (Dell Dimension 5150). Booting: ABCDEFHIJ
(In reply to comment #65) I just tried the 20071025 rawhide boot.iso and it doesn't work on my old Dell PIII either.
Release F8 image does this on a Dell Precision 650 here. Hardware: 1x 2.4GHz Xeon, HT enabled, 2GB RAM. Adaptec 39160 dual channel U160 controller with five 36GB U160 drives. DVD+/-RW Samsung drive. Fedora 7 KDE Live CD booted fine with Dell PERC 3/DC RAID controller instead of the Adaptec 39160, and with a CDRW drive instead of the DVDRW drive. F7 KDE Live CD hangs at Ready with 39160 and the DVDRW. edd=skipmbr has no effect when booting to F8 DVD install. Holding SHIFT down and entering 'linux' on the ISOLINUX command line still hangs, whether booting from the boot.iso on the DVD or from the DVD itself. Holding SHIFT down and entering 'linux edd=skipmbr' on the ISOLINUX command ling hangs. Replacing the DVDRW drive with the original CDRW; boot still hangs from boot.iso. F7 KDE Live will not boot with the CDRW drive anymore, either. I did a full KDE LiveCD install yesterday with this machine, but with the Dell PERC 3/DC controller instead of the Adaptec 39160. (I swapped the 39160 in to improve RAID 5 performance, to switch to software RAID; the PERC 3/DC performance in RAID 5 stinks). Disabling the INT13h SCSI BIOS on both 39160 channels allows boot to proceed for installer, F8 release DVD. I had issues with some of the disks, so i can't verify that it booted after installation, but that's how I got the installer to boot and start.
I am unable to install FC8 on my Asrock AM2XLI-eSATA2 MB AMD64 3800 when sata drive present I can install on pata no problem. FC6 is installed along with xp on the sata drive works no problem. I just get ready then nothing else. However the install will run on the sata in my Asrock conroexfire -eSATA2 Interl E6300 dual. So i am confused here as to what is the problem. I believed it to be a sata issue but havent a clue now.
I have the same problem on a Dell E510 with one sata drive. bug Report 242152 appears to contain a similar problem The machine gets to the Ready prompt and hangs Any suggestions would be a great help I've tried acpi=off, apm=off, ide=nodma, i8042.nomux, nofb, and edd=skipmbr one at a time and in combinations. The mahines hangs at the ready. I've tried holding the shift key and entering linux with no success.
I have no more ASUS-A7V600-X motherboard. So i cannot test any bootmedia anymore..
I have managed to get FC8 installed on my Asrock AMD64 see my post above. I have two hard drives Sata and Pata installed. All i needed to do was change the order of the boot hard drive in bios making the Pata first and holding the shift key down was able to get to the boot:prompt. Entered linux and away it went no problem. A little editing of grub has enabled me to boot either to the XP on the Sata drive or FC8 on the Pata. interestingly though the rescue disk x8664 will not boot so still an issue here. Do not know if this should be logged as another bug "FC8 rescue disk hangs with message"Ready""
I see the same issue here on the F8 release AMD64 Live-DVD and Install-DVD images. Holding down shift while ISOLINUX is loading, and then using 'vmlinuz0 initrd=initrd0.img root=CDLABEL=Fedora-8-Live-x86_64 rootfstype=iso9660 ro liveimg' to boot makes it work. I did not try edd=skipmbr.
Update on Dell Precision 650: Once isntalled, reenabling the INT13h SCSI BIOS allows a bootable system. System runs great after installation; just have to disable the SCSI BIOS before booting the DVD.
Component: pirut Summary: TB2f66aac2 __init__.py:633:keyImportCallback:TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 406, in _apply output = self.applyChanges(self.mainwin) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 803, in applyChanges self.checkSignatures(dlpkgs, mainwin) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 662, in checkSignatures self.getKeyForPackage(po, fullaskcb = keyImportCallback) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 2177, in getKeyForPackage "fingerprint": fingerprint, "timestamp": timestamp}) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 633, in keyImportCallback "import this key?") %(po, userid, hexkeyid, keyurl) TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting Local variables in innermost frame: d: <gtk.MessageDialog object at 0x1042f964 (GtkMessageDialog at 0x10485840)> mainwin: <gtk.Window object at 0x9fd1dc4 (GtkWindow at 0xa01e0e0)> userid: Fedora Project <fedora> keyurl: file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora keydict: {'timestamp': 1067294011, 'userid': 'Fedora Project <fedora>', 'keyurl': 'file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora', 'fingerprint': <bound method public_key.fingerprint of <yum.pgpmsg.public_key instance at 0x10413a4c>>, 'hexkeyid': '4F2A6FD2', 'po': <yum.sqlitesack.YumAvailablePackageSqlite object at 0xdecc0cc>} hexkeyid: 4F2A6FD2 po: slrn - 0.9.8.1pl1-5.20070716cvs.fc8.i386
This is probably the wrong place but I believe is the same issue. I am unable to install any updated kernel to my F886x64.Having installed using the procedure in this bug. I am stuck the original release kernel. The install of new kernels will not write to /boot/grub/grub.conf. I have manually added the details ( even trying to map the drives) but even though the images are installed it is not possible to access either of the two additional kernels. Also the rescue disk will not work even standing on the shift key.
Developments are a foot. I think I have found it using mkinitrd -f -v --fstab=/etc/fstab /boot/initrd-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.img 2.6.23.8-63.fc8 I get below Looking for deps of module ehci-hcd Looking for deps of module ohci-hcd Looking for deps of module uhci-hcd Looking for deps of module ext3: mbcache jbd Looking for deps of module mbcache Looking for deps of module jbd Found root device sdb6 for LABEL=/ Looking for driver for device sdb6 Looking for deps of module scsi:t-0x00: scsi_mod sd_mod Looking for deps of module scsi_mod Looking for deps of module sd_mod: scsi_mod Looking for deps of module scsi_wait_scan: scsi_mod Looking for deps of module pci:v000010B9d00005288sv00001849sd00005288bc01sc06 i01: scsi_mod libata ahci scsi_mod libata ahci etc This is the wrong address it should be sda5 any one have an idea how I can force this? sdb6 is an fc6 install on the sata drive. F8 is on pata/ide . root is at sda5.
Well I have done it here is what to do 1. Enter bios and disable sata boot only to IDE save and exit to restart boot up 2 mkinitrd for the correct kernel in terminal as root su - mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.img 2.6.23.8-63.fc8 this gives output as install for the Kernel 2.6.3.8-63 goes on this then picks up the correct root / in my case sda5 3. gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf to add the the kernel details see my below # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda5 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu [B]title Fedora (2.6.23.8-63.fc8) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.8-63.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.img[/B] title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img title Windows XP map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 4. Restart and enter bios to reinstate sata and ahci save and exit 5 Then the grub options all work ok
The method of holding down the shift key while booting from cd/dvd works for the Dell E510 (see comment 69 above). I entered vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img to boot enough to install. After the install I have been able to upgrade however I have had to pick small sets of packages to update and work through the various packages rather than do a mass update. Thanks very much for the help.
Dell E510 Bios A07 intended for dual boot F8 / XP - same story. Using comment 69 verbatim helps to proceed with installation, albeit with a few I/O warnings during boot. The resulting system boots and works flawlessly.
Dell E510 Bios A07, no dual boot (just Fedora), was able to (finally!) update from FC-6 to F8 using edd=skipmbr.
Dell E510, Bios A05, no dual boot, 2X 320G IDE, 2X 160G SATA, EXT USB DVDRW, shift key on boot, edd=skipmbr worked with FC 8 DVD install.
I tried the Fedora 9 Alpha live cd and this still doesn't work. It hang on Ready.
It worked! The Fedora 9 Beta live cd boots on my computer now. Finally. I've not been able to (without a workaround) boot any Fedora since Fedora 6.
There is a same 5150 box which cannot boot F10 Preview, have not tried edd=skipmbr yet
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