Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 73324
installer hangs on ibm microdrive partition check
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:52 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) Description of problem: I am trying to install Red Hat 7.3 on an ICP ROCKY-3732EVS Single Board Computer (SBC). This features a Compact Flash (CFII) socket that accepts IBM's 1GB Microdrive. This appears as a secondary master on the IDE and is recognised by Linux on boot-up, but when the OS tries to carry out a partition check, the screen just freezes after displaying "hdc". I have successfully installed Mandrake 8.1 on this Microdrive, plus I have been told by our PC supplier that they have successfully installed Red Hat 7.2. If I fit a standard hard disk on the primary IDE channel, then Red Hat 7.3 installs and boots up OK, but only when the Microdrive is removed or I issue the boot parameter "linux hdc=noprobe". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert microdrive in CFII socket 2. Insert Red Hat 7.3 Installation CDROM in CD drive 3. Turn on PC Actual Results: Linux successfully recognises IBM microdrive on hdc, but when it attempts a partition check, the system hangs. Expected Results: Linux should have displayed the existing partitions and continued with installation process. Additional info: I have attached a screenshot from the installation process.
Created attachment 74564 [details] Screenshot from installer
This is hanging in the kernel at the start, the installer has not begun to run yet. You might want to check that there is a valid partition table on the microdrive.
The microdrive came formatted with a FAT partition. I have subsequently installed Mandrake Linux 8.1 on it, which obviously repartitioned and formatted the drive successfully.
Installation Red Hat 7.3 hangs on 'partition check' on Ultra DMA 4 drive, but pass fine Ultra DMA 2 and Ultra DMA 5 drives. Award BIOS 6 version, Sony Vayo desktop PC - PCV-RX650.
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