From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I have an Asus A7V/Duron 850Mhz and the installer hangs up before the partition check. The last message are: ide0: ...(IO address) ... IRQ ... ide1: ...(IO address) ... IRQ ... If I run the installer on anther machine, the next message after that should be the partition check of all the IDE drives. And the partition table print on screen. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot from the RedHat Linux 7.1 CD 2.Wait until the kernel try to check the partition of your IDE drives Actual Results: The kernel hangs-up. You can to press the RESET button or power down your computer to restart Expected Results: The kernel should check and determine your partition in you PC Additional info: This mobo has the Promise ATA-100 controler. I have one disk conected to this controler.
1) Is the drive connected using a 80 ribbon wire ? 2) Does specifying "ide=nodma" on the syslinux / lilo prompt help ?
Answers: 1. yes, the promise detect it as ATA-66. Also, I installed the drive. It is working in Win98. 2. yes, I try the instalation with: LILO: text ide=nodma I also try to pass all the IO of the ide and does not work either. Oliver
Arjanv, Would it be fair to say that bug 38390 is also the same problem, and the same one that I am experiencing? Thanks, AndrewP.
Ok, is it possible to disconnect the drive to the promise array during the time of installation ?
OK, Will try that, but I will do that only for the installation, because the PC is a dual-boot with Win98
Yes, the idea is that then you can use an updated kernel which might have this fixed!
Last friday we released an updated kernel including a brand new Promise driver.
Thanks, I'm downloading the new kernel. Will the boot.img be updated too? I see I will have some trouble with /etc/fstab, beacuse the promise device starts at hde. But I can deal with it. Oliver
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