From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: I attempt to install RH Linux 8.0 on a SCSI system with Intel Celeron II.The installer crashes after starting the X server. Screen output is reproduced below... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install RH Linux 8.0 2. 3. Actual Results: The following is the screen output ... 1...2...3...4...5.... X Server startd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 639, in? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 420, in makeDriveDeviceNodes isys.makeDevInode(drive,"/dev/%s" %(drive,)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 265, in makeDevInode _isys.mkdevinode(name,fn) SystemError: (2,'No such file or directory') install exited abnormally ... Expected Results: installation of OS Additional info: SCSI system with RH 8.0
Could you give details on the hardware in your system please?
Below is the dmesg output from the same machine with RedHat Linux 7.2. If more is needed let me know... Linux version 2.4.2-2 (root.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-79)) #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009fc00 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000000f0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000000000fef0000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000008000 @ 000000000fff0000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000000008000 @ 000000000fff8000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000ffff0000 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 65520 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone DMA has max 32 cached pages. zone(1): 61424 pages. zone Normal has max 479 cached pages. zone(2): 0 pages. zone HighMem has max 1 cached pages. hm, page 01000000 reserved twice. Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=806 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz- 2.4.2-2 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 501.184 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 999.42 BogoMIPS Memory: 254932k/262080k available (1365k kernel code, 6760k reserved, 92k data, 236k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 128K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.37 (20001109) Richard Gooch (rgooch.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb31, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Disabled enhanced CPU to PCI posting PCI: Disabled enhanced CPU to PCI posting #2 PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0596] at 00:07.0 Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Calling quirk for 01:03 isapnp: CMI8330 quirk - fixing interrupts and dma isapnp: Card 'CMI8330/C3D Audio Adapter' isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS not found. Starting kswapd v1.8 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured block: queued sectors max/low 169221kB/56407kB, 512 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PCI: Enabling device 00:07.1 (0000 -> 0001) VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: VIA vt82c596a (rev 06) IDE UDMA33 controller on pci00:07.1 VP_IDE: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS) Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 359k freed Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 PCI: Found IRQ 14 for device 00:08.0 IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:08.0 (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/8/0 (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Int-68 YES, Ext-68 NO) (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 436 instructions downloaded scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.2.4/5.2.0 <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: SX423451W Rev: 9E16 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: CONNER Model: CTT8000-S Rev: 1.07 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: NAKAMICH Model: MJ-4.8S Rev: 1.05 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 (scsi0:0:6:1) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Vendor: NAKAMICH Model: MJ-4.8S Rev: 1.05 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: NAKAMICH Model: MJ-4.8S Rev: 1.05 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: NAKAMICH Model: MJ-4.8S Rev: 1.05 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8. SCSI device sda: 45322644 512-byte hdwr sectors (23205 MB) Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=3 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 236k freed Adding Swap: 530104k swap-space (priority -1) usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.251 $ time 20:53:29 Apr 8 2001 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:07.2 IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:07.2 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xdc00, IRQ 11 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. buffers 4, s/g segs 16. Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ... SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ... 0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes 0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 16 0x378: readIntrThreshold is 16 0x378: PWord is 8 bits 0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses 0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x40 0x378: ECP settings irq=<none or set by other means> dma=<none or set by other means> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP] parport0: irq 7 detected parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38) parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38) ip_conntrack (2047 buckets, 16376 max) Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.14 (February 20, 2001) PCI: Found IRQ 15 for device 00:09.0 eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip rev 34 at 0xda00, 00:40:33:A6:46:BE, IRQ 15. eth0: EEPROM default media type Autosense. eth0: Index #0 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block. eth0: Index #1 - Media 100baseTx (#3) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block. eth0: Index #2 - Media 10baseT-FD (#4) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block. eth0: Index #3 - Media 100baseTx-FD (#5) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block. eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7809 advertising 05e1. eth0: Advertising 01e1 on PHY 1, previously advertising 05e1. eth0: Advertising 01e1 (to advertise is 01e1). 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.15 loaded PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0 IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:0a.0 eth1: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xd08c2e00, 00:00:b4:c0:ba:75, IRQ 14 eth1: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B' eth1: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. fatfs: bogus cluster size VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 02:00.
Jeremy do you know of any aic issues with 8.0?
This is fixed in the update disk available at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/80update.img