From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.74 [en] (WinNT; U) Attempting to upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0, can't get the installer to work, but consistently hangs after the package media is selected (local CD-ROM or local hard-drive). I tried with various scsi drivers of aic7xxx (i386/i586/i686) from http://people.redhat.com/dledford, but consistently fails with the same hang problem. I did not have this problem when RedHat 6.2 was fresh installed on 200 MHz Pentium PC. I copied the CDROM 1 and 2 to the local hard-drive, but it fails with same failure. Can someone please help ?? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the PC with boot disk. 2. Enter "text" from boot: prompt. 3. After English and US is selected, select CD-ROM on the package media. 4. Then it hangs with blank screen. It does not respond with any key stokes. Output from cat /proc/pci command ========================== PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel 82439HX Triton II (rev 3). Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=24. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 ISA (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 IDE (rev 0). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=16. I/O at 0xffa0 [0xffa1]. Bus 0, device 8, function 0: VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Trio32/Trio64 (rev 68). Medium devsel. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8000000 [0xf8000000]. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7881U (rev 0). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=24. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8. I/O at 0xfc00 [0xfc01]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffbef000 [0xffbef000]. Bus 0, device 17, function 0: Ethernet controller: DEC DC21041 (rev 17). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=24. I/O at 0xf880 [0xf881]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfff7fc00 [0xfff7fc00]. Output from "cat /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0" command ==================================== Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 5.1.30/3.2.4 Compile Options: TCQ Enabled By Default : Disabled AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS : Enabled AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY : 5 Adapter Configuration: SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter Ultra Narrow Controller at PCI 0/11/0 PCI MMAPed I/O Base: 0xffbef000 Adapter SEEPROM Config: SEEPROM found and used. Adaptec SCSI BIOS: Enabled IRQ: 11 SCBs: Active 0, Max Active 3, Allocated 15, HW 16, Page 255 Interrupts: 37251 BIOS Control Word: 0x10b6 Adapter Control Word: 0x001d Extended Translation: Enabled Disconnect Enable Flags: 0x00ff Ultra Enable Flags: 0x0000 Tag Queue Enable Flags: 0x0000 Ordered Queue Tag Flags: 0x0000 Default Tag Queue Depth: 8 Tagged Queue By Device array for aic7xxx host instance 0: {255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255} Actual queue depth per device for aic7xxx host instance 0: {1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1} Statistics: (scsi0:0:0:0) Device using Narrow/Sync transfers at 10.0 MByte/sec, offset 15 Transinfo settings: current(25/15/0/0), goal(25/15/0/0), user(25/15/0/0) Total transfers 5739 (3544 reads and 2195 writes) < 2K 2K+ 4K+ 8K+ 16K+ 32K+ 64K+ 128K+ Reads: 14 0 1878 587 600 192 273 0 Writes: 4 0 1964 212 14 1 0 0 (scsi0:0:5:0) Device using Narrow/Sync transfers at 10.0 MByte/sec, offset 15 Transinfo settings: current(25/15/0/0), goal(25/15/0/0), user(25/15/0/0) Total transfers 0 (0 reads and 0 writes) < 2K 2K+ 4K+ 8K+ 16K+ 32K+ 64K+ 128K+ Reads: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Writes: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (scsi0:0:6:0) Device using Narrow/Sync transfers at 5.0 MByte/sec, offset 15 Transinfo settings: current(50/15/0/0), goal(25/15/0/0), user(25/15/0/0) Total transfers 0 (0 reads and 0 writes) < 2K 2K+ 4K+ 8K+ 16K+ 32K+ 64K+ 128K+ Reads: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Writes: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Below is the boot message running 6.2 linux from hard-drive ===========================================: Linux version 2.2.16-4 (root.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 1 9990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Jun 20 19:22:15 EDT 2000 Detected 199432 kHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 398.13 BogoMIPS Memory: 127428k/131072k available (1036k kernel code, 416k reserved, 1700k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda11 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed 8regs : 168.021 MB/sec 32regs : 123.063 MB/sec using fastest function: 8regs (168.021 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/11/0 (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO) (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 422 instructions downloaded scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.30/3.2.4 <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> scsi : 1 host. (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39175LW Rev: 0001 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST32171N Rev: 0280 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 (scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15150N Rev: 4611 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 (scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-ROM CR-506 Rev: IG05 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 (scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 5.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Vendor: CONNER Model: CTT8000-S Rev: 1.17 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.10 SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17783240 [8683 MB] [8.7 GB] sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 > SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4222640 [2061 MB] [2.1 GB] sdb: sdb1 SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8388315 [4095 MB] [4.1 GB] sdc: sdc1 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=1 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed Adding Swap: 618460k swap-space (priority -1) st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max buffers 5, s/g segs 16. Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 becker.nasa.gov eth0: Digital DC21041 Tulip rev 17 at 0xf880, 00:00:C0:48:5E:F4, IRQ 10. eth0: 21041 Media table, default media 0800 (Autosense). eth0: 21041 media #0, 10baseT. eth0: 21041 media #4, 10baseT-FD. eth0: 21041 media #1, 10base2. eth0: 21041 media #2, AUI. eth0: 21143 10baseT link beat good. eth0: 21143 10baseT link beat good.
Appears to be a kernel related issue with the aic driver.
One thing that I did not mention from the description was that I also tried to aic7xxx img from http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/linux-aic7xxx-latest-rh70-driver-disk.img-i386 suggested by RedHat installation service personnel. The problem with this img is that I was not able to copy the driver image into the floppy disk drive because the file is greater than the floppy can take. 1,474,562 : linux-aic7xxx-latest-rh70-driver-disk.img The file size should be 1,474,560 instead of 1,474,562. I do not know whether driver img between http://people/redhat.com/dledford and ~gibbs/linux are supposed to be identical or not. I do wish there is a HOW-TO that describes the steps for one to download the source, compile, and create the driver disk img so I can try it out.
Did you try not using any driver disks? Also, when the system hangs, what is happening with the SCSI bus? Are there any kernel messages on VT3 or VT4 (I can't remember which one the kernel messages go to)?
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