From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: System hangs at "loading aic7xxx driver..." during install from CD How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install from CD 2. 3. Actual Results: Booted from CD, hit enter at Boot: prompt, system looked like it was booting linux, stopped at blue screen with grey box titled "loading SCSI driver". Message in box is "loading aic7xxx driver". No further action or information is displayed by computer. Periodically, HD light will flash off and on (5-10 mins i think). Expected Results: Successful install of your product. Additional info: I have a gateway server - Dual 600 CPU
What happens if you boot the installer with the 'apic' command line parameter, e.g. 'linux apic'?
I4ve got exactly the same Problem. I want to install RH7.1 on a series200 IBM Server witch is absolutly compatible to RH 7.1! nice try!! Trying the linux apic commando changes nothing.
I am very interested in what will happen now. And When!!!!!!!!! I searched three Days in any kind of Linux support sites but I can't find any solution for this problem. I want to integrate a Linux server in a 60 employes Enterprise, but now I have to say, redhat seems not to be the right solution for that or the IBM server is not the right system for us. Is SuSe at the end the better choice as erverybody said? Or do I have to give back The IBM Server with the comment that this Hardware doesn't work with redhat and that the compatibility promisses between redhat and IBM are simply wrong? Ingo Kuhlmann, Germany
ikuhlmann: Could you begin by even describing what hardware this is ? So far, most aic7xxx problems have been with a 440GX motherboard and a proven defective bios.
Also note: for the "apic" command to work, you need the bootdisk we made to work around this buggy bios from http://people.redhat.com/dledford/440gx/ as would have been pointed out by our support people and is prominently present on the 7.1 section of the Red Hat support website.
The Hardware is a eServer series200 by IBM. It has got one PIII Processor and an adaptec 789x SCSI-Controller. Any other hardware do I have to check tomorrow in the office (please tell me what exactly you need). To avoid the 440GX problem I made a new bootdisk like is was described on the gotcha - page. The result was the same. (I'am not sure if i have a 440GX motherboard)
the output of "lspci" (if it already has linux) would be a good start. Also, it would be a good datapoint to know if the installfloppy from the Roswell beta release gets further than how far you get right now.
Well, the Hardware is new and without any installation. I also have no running Linux system. We want to start with Linux now and so i am an absolut beginner. The installfloppy stopped at the same time like the original boot CDrom. It makes obviosly no difference.
By looking for more details about the hardware I opened the server to look at each component. Otherwise i knew that the first PCI-slot could make problems sometimes and so I want to put the adaptec-card into another slot (just an akt of resignation!) While doing this I proofed the connection of several cables and found out that the plug of Harddisk was not smart in its position (Sorry! But it is not up to me to proof plugs and cables in a brand new IBM Server and so I found it out at last - also: the connection was smart enough to produce no errors in the system start!) - After fixing the plug the installation works without any problems! Expect the unexpected...
OK, since this is a hardware issue, we are closing this report out.