From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Description of problem: I am trying to install 7.1 on an IBM eServer X340 (A RH Supported platform) with the adaptec AIC-7899G SCSI Controller. The installer hangs upon the load of the device AIC-7XXX. On the other screens I see scrolling messages regarding a SCSI timeout. The scrolling never stops.....I have tried a boot disk posted for 440 motherboards (x340 is not one, but worth a shot). I also tried the noprobe method, that didn't work either. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to install RH7.1 from CD. 2. 3. Actual Results: System hangs Expected Results: It should let me install! Additional info:
see http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/7.1/gotchas-71.html for the workaround
An email received from Jeff Claunch: Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:39:47 -0500 From: "Jeff Claunch" <jclaunch.ag.gov> Subject: Re: [Bug 50615] Changed - 7.1 install hangs on Load of AIC-7XXX To: <bfox>, <borgan> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 This is not the solution to this bug. This is not working. The AIC driver still does NOT load after I used that boot disk that you just pointed me too, as I stated in my original message. Please reopen. ----- Original Message ----- From: <bugzilla> To: <bfox>; <jclaunch.ag.gov>; <borgan> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 2:19 PM Subject: [Bug 50615] Changed - 7.1 install hangs on Load of AIC-7XXX > Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional > comments should be made in the comments box of this bug > report. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50615 > > --- shadow/50615 Wed Aug 1 13:14:22 2001 > +++ shadow/50615.tmp.31452 Wed Aug 1 15:19:01 2001 > @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ > Version: 7.1 > Platform: i386 > OS/Version: Linux > -Status: NEW > -Resolution: > +Status: CLOSED > +Resolution: ERRATA > Severity: high > Priority: high > Component: anaconda > @@ -40,3 +40,8 @@ > Expected Results: It should let me install! > > Additional info: > + > +------- Additional comments from msw 2001-08-01 15:21:01 ------- > +see http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/7.1/gotchas-71.html for the > +workaround > +
At Jeff's request, I've reopened this bug report. Which boot disk did you try?
I tried this boot disk: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/440gx/boot.img Then when my system started up at "boot:" I typed: linux apic The system began coming up and then it tried to load the AIC-7XXXX driver it began doing that reset over and over again, just as it did before. I got no further using this route. Then again, I'm not sure my box even uses the 440gx based MB. But it was worth a shot. Like I said I've also tried booting with "linux noprobe", which boots the system, but then I don't really have any drives available to install on.
Changing component to the kernel.
Have you tried booting with the "linux apic noprobe" command line and then specifying the new aic7xxx driver instead of the old one? (The noprobe will keep the install code from automatically loading the aic7xxx driver, giving you a chance to load the new one instead of the old one, and the apic option uses the IOAPIC to route interrupts in case there is an interrupt routing problem in UP mode without IOAPIC support)
Closing...gave up and installed FreeBSD.