From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0; DigExt) If disks are hung off the Promise Technologies controller (Quantum Fireball - ATA-66 or IBM Deskstor - ATA-100) kernel dies after reporting IRQs for controllers Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot off install disk (disk 1 of 2) 2.Wait to see kernel lock on first screen of data 3. Actual Results: Kernel locks machine Expected Results: Kernel proceeds with install If disks are disconnected from controller, system will start installer (without any media to install to).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29427 ***
This does not look like a duplicate of 29427; in that one, the install fails; here boot fails after irq probing. While they may be related, it is not at all certain that they are. Is this an SMP or uniprocessor system?
build: Wolverine and qa0228.0 performed several tests with the Promise controller: Installations completed successfully with devices attached to ATA100-primary (hard drive (hde)) and ATA-100-secondary (cdrom (hdh)); and with devices on ATA100-primary (hard drive (hde)) and IDE-primary (cdrom (hdb)). No kernel hangs when booting the install kernel or the post-install kernel. see but #29427 for more details: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29427
This system is a uni-proc with a PDC20262. Drives as seen by kernel are hde (ATA-66 Quantum Fireball) and hdf (ATA-100 IBM Destor). Looked at bug #29427, but cannot get past kernel boot into installer.
1) Are you using the proper 80 ribbon cable 2) Does booting with "ide=nodma" on the qa0309 snapshot work ?
Closing, assumed fixed in released product because of lack of further complaint. Please reopen this bug report with the requested information if you are still experiencing this problem.