Bug 25671 - No CD-ROM available when installing in expert mode
Summary: No CD-ROM available when installing in expert mode
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Erik Troan
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard: Florence RC-1
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-02 09:33 UTC by Walter Mueller
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2001-02-26 20:43:00 UTC
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Description Walter Mueller 2001-02-02 09:33:35 UTC 
Booting from CD using an Adaptec 29160 SCSI-Adapter. Hard disk and CD-ROM
are connected to this Adapter. 
Choosing expert mode after booting from CD only offers to install from
harddisk, even if i load then needed SCSI modules. 
Two IDE disks are connected to the second IDE port.
All the disk drives are recognized but not the CDROM.
Text mode installation works fine
Comment 1 Glen Foster 2001-02-02 22:57:46 UTC 
We (Red Hat) should really fix this before next release
Comment 2 Erik Troan 2001-02-06 18:05:34 UTC 
Does the kernel find the CDROM drive? Look at the display on VC4 to find out.
Comment 3 Walter Mueller 2001-02-07 18:09:55 UTC 
When i boot the "Installation Method" menu only offers "Hard drive".
If I press <OK> the "Select Partition" menu shows the partitions on both of the 
connected IDE drives. Now I press <F2> to install the SCSI driver.
After correctly installing the SCSI driver the partitions on the SCSI hard disks 
are also shown in the "Select Partition" menu but going back to the 
"Installation Method" menu still offers only "Hard drive".
VC4 shows that SCSI hard disk and SCSI CDROM are correctly recognized.
Why was the manual selection of the necessary drivers put after the 
"Installation Method" menu ?
In Redhat-7 I first choose the necessary drivers, then the installation method 
and all works fine.

Regards
Comment 4 Erik Troan 2001-02-08 20:36:47 UTC 
this should be fixed by reverting the aic7xxx driver (done internally)
Comment 5 Brock Organ 2001-02-19 17:52:46 UTC 
the fisher aic7xxx driver was very troublesome, and has been reverted; verified
aic7xxx sane behavior in qa0217.1 ...
Comment 6 Walter Mueller 2001-02-25 11:36:15 UTC 
I still can't install wolverine in expert mode because I can't access the SCSI
CD-ROM
In text mode all works fine
Comment 7 Michael Fulbright 2001-02-26 20:42:55 UTC 
This appears to still be a problem, assigning to an engineer.
Comment 8 Brock Organ 2001-02-26 23:20:50 UTC 
Walter, 

Using the wolverine CDROM in text, expert mode, I was unable to advance due to
bug 28488 on a test dell poweredge w/aic7xxx hardware ... :(

I was able to select "CDROM" installation method when booting from a floppy with
the boot.img on it ... perhaps this may work for you as well ...?

Using an internal test tree in which 28488 is resolved (qa0226.0), I am able to
select CDROM installation method, then specify the aic7xxx driver and proceed
through the install from there, so this should be resolved ...
Comment 9 Brock Organ 2001-02-26 23:22:45 UTC 
let me try to be more clear ... :(

> Using an internal test tree in which 28488 is resolved (qa0226.0), I am able 
> to select CDROM installation method, then specify the aic7xxx driver and 
> proceed through the install from there, so this should be resolved ...

the internal test above was booted directly from the cdrom, and not the floppy
:)
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