From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: I want to install Red Hat 7.2 on my IBM ThinkPad A20p, and use an Adaptec SlimSCSI 1480B cardbus connected to a Plextor CD-RW. I switched on the CD-RW before powering up the laptop, and I also checked the SCSI chain terminator. Problem is the installer freezes the machine when loading the aic7xxx module. The same occurs when trying to install Red Hat 7.1. I nevertheless installed successfully RH 7.2 without the SCSI cardbus, but the system fails in recognizing the cardbus. I attach the /var/log/messages. Maybe it gives the reason for the installer failure. I have a question: is my system supporting SCSI then? Best regards, Christian Rinderknecht PS According to the Summary Examples, I guess my kind of problem is not unkown, but maybe it is new for Red Hat 7.2 with my card. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Red Hat 7.2 2. 3. Actual Results: The install process hangs up. Expected Results: Installation complete. Additional info:
Created attachment 36981 [details] This is an excerpt the /var/log/messages file corresponding to the boot-up with my Adaptec SlimSCSI 1480B cardbus plugged.
I have also observed this problem. However, in my case, I have SCSI hard drive and CD-ROM, which means it is impossible to install 7.2 onto systems like mine. However, I did observe that while the system seems to hang, if you wait long enough, eventually a kernel panic message appears on the screen.
This seems like a kernel problem if the card doesn't get recognized even after installation. Changing component.
Few days ago I realized that the kernel do recognize the Card bus after installation. The procedure is in fact (too?) simple: boot with the cardbus plugged in, start pcmcia at boot time, and ignore error messages from cardmgr deamon in /var/log/messages: the *hotplug agent* do silently the proper work... According to David Hinds, maintainer and developper of the pcmcia-cs package at SourceForge, cardmgr is no more in charge of Card Bus (32 bits interfaces), and the new hotplug agent is, but still cadmgr seems to try to do the right job, and fails. Anyway, the CD-RW drive is hooked at /dev/scd0, as expected. The installation problem (I didn't wait long enough to check the kernel panic) remains open?
I have the same problem trying to install to IBM Netfinity3000, Intel Motherboard, Onboard SCSI to aic7xxx... For RedHat 7.1 I found a new boot.img in http://www.redhat.com.br/support/resources/gotchas/7.1/, that works with boot option: boot: linux apic But to RH7.2 no way...
I'm getting the same problem. I was trying to upgrade a VA Linux 2230 server that previously had run Red Hat Linux 6.2 with no problem. When trying to install RH7.2 it hangs on the aic7xxx module. Doing an alt-F4 reveals that the driver appears to be looping through all the SCSI IDs and receiving "timeout" errors. Oddly the first time through, it correctly identifies the drives that are present just before claiming to have had a time out. On subsequent loops through the IDs, though, no drive information appears. After a couple of times through, it transitions to weirded sounding stuff, saying that "device resets" have occurred and printing "trying harder" messages. Meanwhile, back on the main install screen, you just see the "loading aic7xxx" message and it appears to be hung.
For 7.2 you still need the "apic" option to work around the broken bios.
Mine is L440GX motherboard with Adaptec 7896 SCSI. I want to install RH7.2. Where can I find rhe required boot disks? Sagar Srivastava sagar_sri
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