From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686) Description of problem: Installer dies on trying to insert module for symbios/ncr 53c8xx scsi driver (continually resets on 3rd virtual console, but no feedback ever occurs on vc1). Kernel's 2.4.0-prexx, 2.4.1 and 2.4.3 all boot and run on this box with current scsi firmware with no problems (using driver sym53c8xx.o). Suspect patches to RH shipping kernel are at fault. Cannot install as a result. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot off RH7.1 CD on a system with sym53c8xx scsi chipset or board 2. select normal install 3. watch it hang Actual Results: vc1 just hangs on 'inserting .. driver' message. vc3 notes continual timeouts on scsi bus reset. Expected Results: module should have inserted and gone forward, as it does normally with hand-compiled 2.4.x-series kernels. Additional info:
We just found a problem with the ncr scsi driver, we expect to make a new kernel available shortly with a fix, but making sure it works takes some time.
Same here check 37096
I have made a driverdisk for use during the installation to fix this problem. The driverdisk is available from: http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/rhl71/ncrsym/ and the "readme" file should explain how to use this.
The released errata kernel 2.4.3-12 has the driver from the disk as well.
this same problem on the same box appears when installing 7.2. is there a driver disk available with the same fix? did the fix get propagated to the 7.2 kernel?
What motherboard was this again ? The driver in 7.2 should be fine...
intel 440BX i believe.
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