From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: If i try to boot RedHat 7.2 Installation CD (linux noprobe), it hangs after i try to load the aic7xxx driver (the old and the new). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: *you must have the Tyan Thunder K7X Mainboard 1. boot with the noprobe option 2. load the aic7xxx 3. switch console (alt+F4) Actual Results: Here is the Error: * going to insmod aic7xxx.o (path is NULL) Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<f8826491>] EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: ffffffff ebx: 03000000 ecx: f7634000 edx: f7634000 esi: c216b4e0 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp: c022ff20 Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c022f000 Stack: f7642000 f7634040 c2158000 04000001 f8829000 00000006 f8827085 f2158000 f7634000 c21e5e00 04000001 0000000a c022ff98 c0107fed 0000000a c2158000 c022ff98 c022ff98 0000000a c024aa40 c21e5e00 c010813c 0000000a c022ff98 Call Trace: [<f8829000>] [<f8827085>] [<c0107fed>] [<c010813c>] [<c0105344>] [<c010a1e8>] [<c0105344>] [<c0105367>] [<c01053ce>] [<c01f2500>] Code: 66 8b 45 06 40 66 3b 45 04 66 89 45 06 75 34 8b 0c 24 f6 41 <0> Kernel Panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing Expected Results: load the driver and detect the IBM SCSI disks Additional info: I tried also the solution with the 440gx chipset (linux apic), but it does not work. I can not install any RedHat version (tried 7.2 and 7.3) on the new Tyan Thunder K7X Mainboards. I am not sure if the fault comes from the aic7xxx driver, but even if i load it, the oops is there. All other distributions (i tried Debinand SuSE) do not have any problems during the installation process.
I found a solution! Use a PS/2 or NO mouse! The problem is not the aic7xxx, it is the USB!! I disconnected my USB mouse and everything works. I can also load the aic7xxx without any problems, if the USB mouse is disconnected! There were some USB errors (timeouts) during the boot process.