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Description of Problem: Installation hangs at partition check on 80G Maxtor drive connected to Promise Ultra100 ATA Adapter card. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Official 7.3 CD How Reproducible: Probably hardware-dependent. Others report no problems. 7.1 installed on this system cleanly. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run the installation 2. 3. Actual Results: Flashing cursor, system unresponsive. Expected Results: Installation Additional Information: System is DFI ITBD586 mobo, circa 1997, P233MMX, 128MB RAM. Award v4.51-pg BIOS does not support large drives. No BIOS upgrade available. Promise card installed and system reconfigured for 7.3 installation. When that failed, 7.1 was tried, which installed with no drivers or kernel params. The drive was partitioned and formatted using the tools in the 7.1 installer. The 7.3 installation detects the drive, but hangs at the partition check. Large drive is on ide2, hde, partitioned with a 512MB swap, hde1, and the rest is hde2, mounted as /home under 7.1. Relevant section from 7.1 /var/log/dmesg: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 70 PDC20267: chipset revision 2 PDC20267: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode. ide2: BM-DMA at 0x6800-0x6807, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0x6808-0x680f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio ide6: ESS ES1868 Plug and Play AudioDrive IDE interface hda: ST32140A, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC AC313000R, ATA DISK drive hdc: FX4010M, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive hde: Maxtor 4D080H4, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ide2 at 0x6400-0x6407,0x6502 on irq 10 hda: 4127760 sectors (2113 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63, DMA hdb: 25429824 sectors (13020 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1582/255/63, UDMA(33) hde: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=158816/16/63, UDMA(100) hdd: No disk in drive hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm Partition check: hda: hda1 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 > hde: [PTBL] [9964/255/63] hde1 hde2 < hde5 > That last line is where it hangs on the 7.3 install, with the cursor right after "hde:".
Appears to have been entered twice. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67502 ***
I don't know how it got entered twice. I entered it just once. Close one number, use the other. Which one shall we use? You guys decide.