Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 56758
(IDE VIA)RH7.2 installation hangs on "Partition check:"
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:51 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I am trying to install RH 7.2 on the following system: AMD Athlon 1.13 GHz Asus A7V motherboard (with KT133A chipset and builtin Promise RAID controller). HD is connected to UDMA controller, nothing is connected to RAID controller at this point. 784MB RAM WesternDigital 4.3 GB HD Matrox G400 VCard Generic CD-ROM It appears that installation hangs due to some problem related to HD. I installed W2K on this system for test purposes and it works without any problems. The following info is printed by the installation program: .... VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide: Assuming 33MHz PCI bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0:4.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 88 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:11.0 PDC20265: chipset revision 2 PDC20265: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode. ide2: BM-DMA at 0x8400-0x8407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0x8408-0x840f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA hda: WDC AC34300L, ATA DISK drive hdc: CR-2801TE, ATAPI DVD/CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 8406720 sectors (4304 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=523/255/63, UDMA(33) hdc: ATAPI 8X CD-ROM CD-R drive, 512kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 ide-floppy driver 0.97 Partition check: hda: hda1 (installation hangs here) Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Run RH7.2 installation on the described configuration Actual Results: Installation hangs Expected Results: Installation should continue Additional info:
Disabled "Onboard ATA BIOS" option in BIOS. Boot process is no longer checking if any devices are attached to the Promise RAID controller. Installation still hangs on the Partition check. Is there any way to get this working at all??
Enabled "Onboard ATA BIOS" and connected HD to Promise ATA100 RAID controller instead of VIA UDMA100 controller. RH installation gives slightly different messages now. Installtion still hangs. The last two lines are: .... Partition check: hde: [PTBL] [523/255/63] hde1
Have you tried booting with "ide=nodma" as option in the syslinux prompt ?
Typed "linux ide=nodma" (without quotes) at the installation "boot:" prompt. Installation still hangs on the partition check as before.
Clarification: The exact model of mboard I have is Asus A7V133 with KT133A chipset and onboard Promise Raid ATA100 controller. W2K works with this board flawlessly.
It appears that if system does not have a floppy drive, RH7.2 (and RH7.1) cannot be installed. After a floppy drive was added to the box and HD was connected to the Promise ATA100 controller, I was able to install RH7.2. IMO, THIS MUST BE FIXED. WITHOUT A FLOPPY DRIVE, RH INSTALLATION HANGS WITH NO MEANINGFUL ERROR MESSAGES AND/OR WARNINGS.
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