From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I have a VA Linux 2230 box, with 440GX chipset, AIC7896 SCSI chipset. Yes, that one. There is only 1 processor in the machine, and the install went perfectly. However, when I boot up the machine, it hangs with the old timeout error. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Turn on the machine 2. Watch it boot. Actual Results: SCSI timeout errors galore. Expected Results: The system should boot up normally. Additional info: I attempted the normal 440GX/AIC7xxx workarounds to no avail. I tried passing APIC=0 to the kernel, but it was already a 1 CPU system with the uni-cpu kernel. I'm using GRUB, but that shouldn't make any difference since it gets past that point.
When booting up and trying to load the AIC driver, I get: scsi0 Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.2.4/5/2/0 <Adaptec AIC-786/7 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter scsi1 Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.2.4/5/2/0 <Adaptec AIC-786/7 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channedl 0, id 12, lun 0 Inquiry 00 00 00 ff 00 Vendor QUANTUM MODEL:Atlas_V__9_WLS REV: 0230 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision:03 scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channedl 0, id 12, lun 0 Inquiry 00 00 00 ff 00
440GX based boards are not supported; reassigning to kernel
On 440GX motherboards you NEED to install the SMP kernel. You can either do this by "upgrading" again, and then pick the smp kernel or go into rescue mode (from the cd) and install the smp kernel in the chroot there
The assertion regarding the SMP kernel is correct. Once the SMP kernel was forced onto the system (even though it only has a single CPU installed), all behaved as expected. This also explained why I had installed 7.2 on a 440GX system with AIC-7896 before and it worked--the previous system has 2 CPUs installed. Perhaps this should become part of the Errata for 7.2 and future versions? Thanks for the effort.