From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.12; Mac_PowerPC) Description of problem: Installing RH 7.2 to a system with all disks attached to a 3Ware Escalade 7810 controler fails becuse the 3Ware driver is not loaded. At the installer lilo prompt I enter "linux dd", and when prompted for a driver diskette I insert either the 3Ware-provided driver or a driver diskette created from the images dir on the RH CD. With the 3Ware driver diskette loaded, the following messages appear in VC 3: * found suggestion of 3w-xxxx * found 3w-xxx device * found suggestion of usb-ohci * found devices justProbe is 0 * extracting pattern 2.4.7-10*/3w-xxxx) * going to insmod 3w-xxxx.o (path is /tmp/modules/3w-xxx) However, /proc/modules does not list the 3Ware driver among the loaded modules and /proc/scsi/scsi is empty. The install proceeds until the disk partitioning step at which point it fails with the "no valid devices" error. I have tried "linux updates dd" with according the instructions in RedHat advisory RHBA-2001:131-03, but the results are the same. The system in question is running RedHat 7.1 with Linux software RAID. The 3Ware controler is configured with no hardware RAID arrays. Running the RedHat 7.1 installer works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from RH 7.2 installation floppy or CD 2.Enter "linux dd" at the lilo prompt 3.insert the 3Ware driver diskette when prompted Actual Results: The installtion fails in the partitioning step with the "no valid devices" error Expected Results: The 3Ware driver should have loaded, allowing me to parition the disks and proceed with the RH 7.2 installation Additional info:
Have you tried the anaconda errata: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2001-131.html
Yes. From my original report: + I have tried "linux updates dd" with according the instructions in + RedHat advisory RHBA-2001:131-03, but the results are the same. The console messages say the installer is "going to insmod 3w-xxxx.o", but the modules is never loaded and the install fails at the disk partitioning step.
You shouldn't need 'linux updates dd', just 'linux updates'. Also, you are booting with the boot disk from 7.2, correct?
I'm experiencing the same problem with a 3ware Escalade 7850 and Red Hat Linux 7.2. I suspect that it is because the PCI ID of my board is 0x13c1 0x1001, rather than the 0x13c1 0x1000 that Enigma expects to see. I worked around the problem by placing the 3w-xxxx.o driver on a floppy disk, and insmod'ing the driver by hand when the shell on tty2 starts up in anaconda. - paul
please ignore my above comment, it's a different issue, which was resolved by bug 54291.
Using 'linux updates" rather than "linux updates dd" has no effect. The driver still fails to load. I've succeeded by using the same approach as paul-misc. That is, I copy the driver from another RH 7.2 system to a diskette and from the shell prompt on the second vc I mount the floppy and insmod the driver. It sounds like the fix described in the resolution to Bug#:54291 might not have been accomplished?
It's fixed, just post 7.2. If you boot with 'linux updates noprobe', you should be able to manually select the driver and then things should work.
Does the RawHide fix use the latest 3Ware driver ( Release 7.3.2 Version 1.02.00.008)? To successfully install RedHat 7.2 on disks attached to an Escalade 7810 you must use this driver version - the version included with the RedHat 7.2 installation disks will crash. Also, the 3Ware module installed in by the RH 7.2 installer will fail when the system is rebooted after installation.
The current rawhide kernel uses a later driver version than the one mentioned (1.02.00.015)