From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Description of problem: Installer halts at "aic7xxx loading" AMD K6-2 300,128M, SiS 5591 chipset, Adaptec 7850 PCI SCSI (IRQ 11)with a Plextor burner hanging on it, PCI Ethernet, PCI SB Live!,, 2 IBM hds, Memorex IDE CD-ROM Alt F4 yields cables are OK Message: <6> SCSI0 Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x <4> <Adaptec AIC-7850 Host Adaptor> <4> Abort command due to timeout pid 0,scsi 0, channel 0,id 0, lun 02 <4> scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 <4> scsi host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0)timeout last two lines repeat I've tried 'linux ide=nodma' Just flashed my bios, no change Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot off of IDE CDROM (located as secondary slave) 2. 3. Actual Results: Hangs on 'aic7xxx loading' Expected Results: Load the Adaptec driver and proceed Additional info:
The HDs are IDE
Had the same problem for the first 2 very early versions of 2.4 kernel, when the "old" aic7xxx driver was replaced by the new present kernel driver. I had a Yamaha burner on it (threw it away 'n don't recommend it) with the same result as you get. Even worse; when rebooting my machine the burner disappeared from the setting in the the SCSI-BIOS and I had to reconfigure the SCSI-bus setting. Maybe you try the following: take out the power supply from the SCSI burner and install RH 7.2 as you like it. Then compile your own kernel with the _old_ aic7xxx driver and install it, power down your machine, put again the power supply to the SCSI burner and try to reboot your system. This worked for me though I know it is not a brilliant solution. Now I replaced my Yamaha SCSI burner by a much cheaper ATAPI one and it works fine.
Try using the new aic7xxx driver on your system. To use it, boot the installer with the option noprobe and then when asked about where your media is, answer local CD-ROM, then when prompted to add a device, add a SCSI device and then select the "New Adaptec ...." from the list (you will have to scroll all the way down to the N's, don't select any of the Adaptec options listed in the A's portion of the list). Report the results back here please.
Using the experimental Adaptec driver seemed to work and permitted a smooth installation. I installed all of the packages then rebooted. Now, on boot up it hangs on "Entering Red Hat Interactive Press 'I' to continue" I didn't notice any error messeges preceding this portion of startup. It hangs right there every time. Pressing 'I' does nothing. Alt F-4 nothing. CTL ALT DEL, nothing. Wait 15 minutes, nothing. Hard restart. Have not tried to re-install yet. RH 7.2 installs and running works great if I just unplug the Adaptec card before I start. But I'd like to use the Plextor burner it's attached to. Thanks
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