Bug 47177 - Installer hangs after identifying IDE0 units
Summary: Installer hangs after identifying IDE0 units
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-07-03 20:57 UTC by kendall.norris
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-07-10 16:27:16 UTC
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Description kendall.norris 2001-07-03 20:57:49 UTC
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Description of problem:
I can not install 7.1 but 6.1 will install.  The computer is a industrial 
chassis with a SBC/233 Pentium. It has a Ultra DMA/33 IDE interface.  The 
last 3 lines displayed are: 
hda: FUJITSU MPB3032ATU, ATA DISK drive
hdb: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W8432T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM DRIVE
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
I have 7.1 loaded on another computer (desktop) and I put this drive into 
the industrial computer and I get the same error.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install cd-rom and initiate the installation
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  Can't install.

Expected Results:  Duh!

Additional info:

We use the industrial computers to control automated test equipment.  
RedHat6.1 can be used but my development efforts have been on 7.1 and I 
want to use the 2.4 kernel.  This really is a problem.

Comment 1 andrew.simpson 2001-07-07 20:15:50 UTC
Same problem exactly with AMD K6 200 with SiS 5597 chipset and Seagate U series drive (10 Gb).

RedHat 6.2 installs and loads fine.  Running RedHat 7.1 installer with kernel parameter hda=noprobe gets around the bug - but installer can't then see the HDD to install onto!  Running installer with kernel parameter for cylinder/head/sector info doesn't help.

Motherboard manual states board (Asus SP97-V) will accept HDD greater than 8.4 Gb.

Comment 2 andrew.simpson 2001-07-08 20:34:56 UTC
O.K., I seem to have resolved this one - at least on my machine anyway.

The SiS 5597/5598 chips (and others in this series?) mis-report the HDD
partition sizes. The manufacturers' sites are very vague, but there are 
hints of the issue in Deja News, the SiS website and the Asus ftp site BIOS
changelog for my motherboard.

A BIOS update was issued late 1998.  I flashed this into my board and voila!

Strangely, from my experience this only affects the 2.4 kernel. The 2.4
kernel adds a specific SiS driver - this could be why...?

Kendall - your boards are clearly the same vintage as mine.  Similar
problem?


Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-07-10 16:27:12 UTC
Kendall-

  Try booting the installer with 'linux ide=nodma'.  Does that help?

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2001-07-20 22:05:06 UTC
Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you have more information.


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