From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) Description of problem: I'm booting from the install cd with "linux hda=1247,255,63 hdc=1247,255,63". The install crashes (both graphic and text mode) just as anaconda tries to display the timezone panel Dumps attached How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.See description 2. 3. Actual Results: See description Additional info:
Created attachment 23507 [details] zip of two anaconda dump files
please boot your system with "linux ide=nodma" to see if this fixes the problem. If it does, run: for I in /proc/ide/hd*; do echo $I; cat $I/model; done on your installed system and attach the results.
Booting the install with "linux ide=nodma" or "linux ide=nodma hda=1247,255,63 hdc=1247,255,63" both result in a hang during formating disks. I did the install successfully - with no parms on the install boot, but putting hda=1247,255,63 hdc=1247,255,63 in kernel parms. However, I immediately got Gnome problems (per the reported problems where your suggestion about ide=nodma). I tried booting the installed system with "linux ide=nodma hda=1247,255,63 hdc=1247,255,63" - Gnome won't complete startup hangs just before creating the panel. So, I'm running with "linux ide=nodma" - this is nervous making because of messages which indicate that /dev/hdc is seen as different goemetry than /dev/hda; however, the ptbl check seems to return the right result??? (dmesg below) Linux version 2.4.2-2 (root.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-79)) #1 Sun Apr 8 19:37:14 EDT 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009fc00 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000000f0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000ffff0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000000001fef0000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000000f800 @ 000000001fff0800 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000000000800 @ 000000001fff0000 (ACPI NVS) On node 0 totalpages: 131056 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone DMA has max 32 cached pages. zone(1): 126960 pages. zone Normal has max 991 cached pages. zone(2): 0 pages. zone HighMem has max 1 cached pages. hm, page 01000000 reserved twice. Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=303 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 ide=nodma ide_setup: ide=nodmaIDE: Prevented DMA Initializing CPU#0 Detected 451.031 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 897.84 BogoMIPS Memory: 512712k/524224k available (1363k kernel code, 11124k reserved, 92k data, 232k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000, vendor = 2 Enabling new style K6 write allocation for 511 Mb CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K (32 bytes/line), D cache 32K (32 bytes/line) CPU: After vendor init, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000002 CPU: After generic, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000002 CPU: Common caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000002 CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.37 (20001109) Richard Gooch (rgooch.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: AMD K6 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb4e0, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Disabled enhanced CPU to PCI posting #2 PCI: 00:07.3: class 604 doesn't match header type 00. Ignoring class. PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0586] at 00:07.0 Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.14) Starting kswapd v1.8 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured block: queued sectors max/low 340429kB/209357kB, 1024 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later VP_IDE: VIA vt82c586b (rev 47) IDE UDMA33 controller on pci00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb400-0xb407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb408-0xb40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: WDC WD102AA, ATA DISK drive hdb: FX4010M, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: WDC WD102AA, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 20044080 sectors (10263 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=1247/255/63, UDMA(33) hdc: 20044080 sectors (10263 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19885/16/63, UDMA(33) Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > hdc: [PTBL] [1247/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 359k freed Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0 IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:07.2 IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:0b.0 (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/11/0 (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 NO, Ext-50 YES) (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 415 instructions downloaded scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.2.4/5.2.0 <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> Vendor: QUANTUM Model: VIKING 4.5 NSE Rev: 880R Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW8424S Rev: 1.0j Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: iomega Model: jaz 1GB Rev: J^77 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 (scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. SCSI device sda: 8899737 512-byte hdwr sectors (4557 MB) sda: sda1 (scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. SCSI device sdb: 2091050 512-byte hdwr sectors (1071 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: sdb1 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=3 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k freed Adding Swap: 1028152k swap-space (priority -1) Adding Swap: 514072k swap-space (priority -2) usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.251 $ time 19:51:15 Apr 8 2001 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:07.2 IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:07.2 IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:0b.0 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb000, IRQ 9 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ... Winbond chip at EFER=0x3f0 key=0x87 devid=fc devrev=21 oldid=8c Winbond chip type 83877TF SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ... 0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes 0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 16 0x378: readIntrThreshold is 16 0x378: PWord is 8 bits 0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses 0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x4b 0x378: ECP settings irq=7 dma=3 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP] parport0: irq 7 detected parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98) parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 740 ip_conntrack (4095 buckets, 32760 max) ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:09.0 eth0: Winbond 89C940 found at 0xb800, IRQ 5, 00:20:78:16:FC:9E. Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M agpgart: Detected Via MVP3 chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000 [drm] AGP 0.99 on VIA MVP3 @ 0xe0000000 64MB [drm] Initialized r128 2.1.2 20001215 on minor 63 es1371: version v0.27 time 19:49:34 Apr 8 2001 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x06 PCI: Assigned IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.0 es1371: found es1371 rev 6 at io 0xbc00 irq 10 es1371: features: joystick 0x0 ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: 0x5452:0x4123 (TriTech TR?????) hdb: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
So, can you try msw's suggestion above and attach the results? I'm curious to see what the kernel thinks your disk geometry is. It sounds like your system is up and running now. Are you seeing any more problems?
Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you have more information.