Bug 51127
| Summary: | Installer hangs when loading aic7xxx module | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Daniel Hanks <hanksdc> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | roswell | CC: | markjx |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-08-08 16:10:54 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Daniel Hanks
2001-08-07 18:41:04 UTC
What happens if you boot the kernel with the magic flag "apic", e.g., "linux apic"? That fixed the problem with booting. That fixed the problem with booting, I should have read bug #29555 a bit more thoroughly. However, I still think this falls in the description of "bug" as 29555 hasn't really been fixed yet, as I understand. Reassigning to glen - probably ought to dupe to the other related bug. Um, since I don't own code, I think a developer would be a better person to own this defect. Arjan, please take a look at this bug and the tretise that transpires in bug #29555 and make a call as to whether (a) this defect should be closed as dup *and* (b) whether bug #29555 needs to be re-opened, and (c) if you re-open the older bug, what the disposition of the bug is (and let me know the latter in a separate e-mail, please). We (Red Hat) really need to fix this defect before next release. "apic" is automatically enabled on "known broken 440GX bioses". It seems your bios is not yet in this list, so I hereby ask you to download the program from http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/dmidecode.c and then (as root) do gcc dmidecode.c -o dmidecode ./dmidecode | mail -s "needs apic" hardwarebugs-list the later command will send an email with your bios identifiers to the list we have to gather this information. I would recommend you run ./dmidecode first without the mail so you can see what information will be sent out. Thank you for your cooperation. OK, I've sent off the output. Please verify receipt. Thanks for your quick response to all this. I'm very impressed with the beta so far. Identifier added to the list; kernels with it will appear in rawhide in a few days. On a somewhat related note, can anybody point me to docs on how the whole beta/rawhide/final process goes? Do changes/bugfixes, etc in Roswell make it back into the Roswell stuff I see on the beta mirrors, or does everything go into rawhide until the official release? I.e., Is rawhide essentially an "improving-with-time" version of RedHat based off the latest beta? rawhide will remain a random snapshot, but I believe the "up2date" mechanism is going to be used to upgrade Roswell with stable packages. |