From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; AT&T CSM6.0; Q312461) Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Buy an HP 752n PC 2. Install Red Hat Linux 7.3 3. Try to boot. Actual Results: ... ide: Assuming 33Mhz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9 VID=8086, DID=24cb PCI: Device 00:if.1 not available because of resource collisions PCI_IDE (ide_setup_pci_device:) could not enable device hda: ST36002A, ATA DISK drive hdc: CR-48XATE, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8160B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 Expected Results: Usual boot, with the IDE controller recognized. Additional info: Based on my reading of the kernel source code and the data sheet for this IDE controller, I suspect that I simply need one more line in the table of IDE controllers recognized by the kernel. I'm hoping for a boot time work-around to get the system up and running. Otherwise, I'm seeking a plan of attack on how to get Linux patched/running on a machine that does not boot. Thank you.
if your bios is anywhere remotely sane then it should work regardless of not knowing the PCI ID, just not with DMA. You can try to use "ide=nodma" on the grub screen to see if that works... :( Or a newer kernel from the rawhide directory of our ftp site; that one has the ID added
I tried the ide=nodma option during the course of my e-mail discussions with Red Hat support, and again just now, but the boot still stalls at the same place. Thus I think I'd like to go the rawhide route. Not to seem terribly obtuse about it, but when I look in /pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/rawhide/i386/images, I find an empty directory. Is this the correct directory and therefore should I conclude that there are no prebuilt images available? (I'm fairly new to the Linux world, and have yet to build a kernel, and am hoping to avoid doing so.) Or is there a directory where I can find the prebuilt images?
You can get images from the beta "Null" thats' in the beta directory
I went the rawhide route, downloading from a mirror site: ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/null/en/iso/i386 I burned images to CD, and after doing a mediacheck on each CD, installed Linux. The boot proceeds further than before, but at a certain point crashes, causing the hardware to reboot and the screen to go blue before I can really get a good look at the last console message before the crash. The best glance I could get was something still to do with the IDE, but I would not swear to this. Is there some way I can look at the previous boot's console log during boot time, such that I can give you more information? Also, is this the right forum for reporting bugs in a beta version of the software?
Supported in the current errata kernels