From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0; Q312461; YComp 5.0.2.4) Description of problem: Trying to install RedHat 7.3 Profession on a Compaq ProLiant 2500 with a Smart2/P array controller. When using "linux dd" or "linux expert" the drive load dialog screen does not appear. The installer goes straight to the superblock error producted by the controller issue. Loras Feller Email: Loras.Feller Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot from the floppy or the cdrom to install. 2. 3. Actual Results: "cannot read superblock" error. Expected Results: A good install. Additional info:
Can you be more specific about the error you're seeing?
I see messages relating to communicating with the hard drive. Of course, at this point it is to late. I need to plug in the "esia=0x6000" before it gets this far. I understand the "linux dd" or linus expert" is suppose to stop and present a device driver definition dialog screen....but it doesn't. Along with "cannot read superblock", I see "bad magic number". Loras
Try using 'linux dd noprobe' instead of 'linux dd'. Does that make it work?
I have tried the following with no luck...... linux dd noprobe mem=192M linux dd expert noprobe mem=192M linux noprobe dd expert mem=192M linux rescue mem=192M My exact errors are.... ext2-fs: unable to read superblock cramfs: wrong magic FAT: unable to read boot sector isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=09:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32 kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 09:00 Loras
This looks like you have a bad floppy disk. Please try with different physical media.