Description of Problem: During installation on a Dell 2300 with AMI MegaRAID(PERC2/SC, Firmware version 3.13/Bios 1.43) the boot freezes with: scsi aborting command due to timeout: pid0, scsi0, ch0, id0 lun0 0x12 00 00 00 FF 00 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Red Hat 7.3, Kernel 2.4.18, boot image boot.img or from CD. How Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot from CD or boot.img on above hardware 2.Wait until megaraid is detected and driver loads, system does not proceed to boot (Waiting for SCSI cmd timeout?) 3. Press <ctrl><alt><del> console freezes solid Actual Results: Expected Results: Boot on install image and start install. Additional Information: Anything you need, let me know.
I've replaced the 1.18a megaraid driver with the 1.18 version from the dist 2.4.18 kernel. The system is still locking up on boot in the exact location in the boot sequence. I'm continuing my testing.
This may be a hardware problem. I managed to free an almost identical system and it has booted. I will confirm the specifics of hardware/software and post the resulting information.
this might be an interrupt issue; if you have 2 identical systems where one works and the other doesn't then checking the bios for "mptable" "mps" or "acpi" settings and comparing them with the working system might prove interesting
Just a "me too" comment. We have an older Intel mobo with an LSI (nee AMI) Express 200. We updated it to the latest 1.48 firmware, and I see on other bugzilla entries that 1.58 apparently works. The question is: how can we get 1.58 firmware for this controller? LSI's webpage has 1.48 as the latest version available. Any ideas?
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/