From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Anaconda starts and shows graphical installer. When I select any of the Install options the error message shows. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert CD and reboot server 2.Starts install from cd. Loads "aic7xxx" and "megaraid" drivers. 3.Text appears within the normal install blue screen saying "unable to identify CD Rom format. 4.Loads "aic7xxx" and "megaraid" drivers again and finds CD. 5.Runs anaconda and probes mouse type. Starts GUI installer. 6.Same result experienced when I use aic7xxx driver from people.redhat.com/dledford Actual Results: Error message every time. Expected Results: Sucessful install Additional info: Tried using updated aic7xxx driver. No go This looks similar to a number of other bug reports but did not resolve when I used the solutions from those reports
The full error message reads" An error has occurred. No valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem". Only option is to click "OK" which reboots the server.
When you get the "An error has occurred..." message, press <Ctrl><Alt><F4> and see if there are any interesting error messages.
As requested <begins> <6>PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:0a.1 <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer deference at virtual address 000002cc <4> printing eip: <4>d0a4f5b3 <4>pgd entry cfa25000: 0000000000000000 <4>pmd entry cfa25000: 0000000000000000 <4>... pmd not present! <4>Oops: 0000 <4>CPU: 0 <4>EIP: 0010:[<d0a4f5b3>] <4>EFLAGS: 00010246 <4>eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 000002cc edx: 00001111 <4>esi: 000002cc edi: d0a51df1 ebp: d0a529a0 esp: cff15e44 <4>ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 <4>Process loader (pid: 32, stackpage=cff15000) <4>Stack: 00001860 00008086 c0120000 c022ci04 c144e000 00005e7c 00000000 c022c151 <4> 00000001 101e9060 00000001 020018d7 0000190e 80861960 11111111 00000000 <4> 334429a0 00000000 d0a52120 d0a52e20 d0a529a0 d0a4fa63 d0a529a0 00008086 <4>Call Trace: [<c0120000>] [<d0a52120>] [<d0a52e20>] [<d0a529a0>] [<d0a4fa63>] [<d0a529a0>] [<c011f667>] <4> [<d0a4e000>] [<doa4f970>] [<d0a1233b>] [<d0a529a0>] [<c0121e5d>] [<d0a4e000>] [<d0a517c2>] [<d0a529a0>] <4> [<doa529a0>] [<c0113985>] [<d0a531e0>] [<d0a2e000>] [<d0a4e060>] [<c0108eaf>] <4> <4>Code: ac ae 75 08 84 c0 75 f8 31 c0 eb 04 19 c0 0c 01 85 c0 74 1b <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A <4>Unable to identify CD_ROM format. <6>raid0 personality registered as nr2 <6>raid1 personality registered as nr3 <6>raid5: measuring checksumming speed <4> 8regs : 743.200 MB/sec <4> 32regs : 415.200 MB/sec <4> pII_mmx : 1015.200 MB/sec <4> p5_mmx : 1054.000 MB/sec <4>raid5: using function: p5_mmx (1054.000 MB/sec) <6>raid5 personality registered as nr 4 <ends>
This is a kernel oops, so I'm changing component to the kernel.
Is this an IDE cdromdrive ? If so, could you try passing "ide=nodma" on the syslinux prompt ?
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