From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) Description of problem: Installer Hangs on laoding aic7xxx module. ALT-F4 shows noe real errors, it just have frozen at the line: <4> Adaptec AIC-7896/7 Ultra 2 SCSI Host Adapter other lines which may be of interest: <6>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 <6>PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0 <6>PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:0c.1 <6>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.1 <6>PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:0c.0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start innstallation from CD-ROM or via FTP etc... 2. 3. Actual Results: Hangs at loading aic7xxx module Expected Results: Installer should have continued Additional info: My Hardware: 2x Pentium III 500 Mhz 1 GB RAM Intel L440GX+ Motherboard Bios Production Release 14.3 AIC 7896 Onboard SCSI Bios V. 2.57S2B3 IBM DNES-309170Y This bug looks like 29555, but i could not solve the problem from looking at that bug.
First of all, grab the updated boot disk from the bug you mention, and try passing the "apic" option to the commandline of that. Second of all, the official word on the 440GX situation currently is: Most implementations using the 440GX chipset require the "apic" option to function correctly. When this is the case, providing DMI information to Red Hat as documented below[1] may allow us to automate that setting in the future. On some systems, the "apic" boot flag may not work. Unfortunately, because of Intel Proprietary information, these platforms are not supported at this time.
However I can not seem to find an attachment including boot disk image on the bug 29555 all i can find is this line: 2001-05-15 01:24:09 But no link to a file or something else.
http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/gotchas/7.1/gotchas-71.html please see the url above, it has a 440gx specific section with links to the proper files, and instructions on how to use it.
It worked using the boot disk images mentioned above:) Thanx.