Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 84830
Installer hangs when loading aic7xxx module on a 440GX board
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:51:30 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030120 Description of problem: The Phoebe beta 3 installer hangs when loading the aic7xxx module for an onboard Adaptec SCSI chipset on a L440GX motherboard. The installer worked on previous betas and on 8.0. I'll try the apic trick for the installation, and see if that bypasses the problem. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from phoebe beta 3 on a 440GX motherboard Actual Results: When loading the aic7xxx module, the scsi bus goes into an infinite loop.
there is no more apic option as per release notes. please send dmidecode output of your machine so that we can add it to the 440gx list
Created attachment 90261 [details] dmidecode output Here is the dmidecode output from the machine
I was attempting to install via NFS, so I tried the boot.iso image first. This resulted in the infinite loop. Next I tried the bootdisk.img + drvnet.img floppies. This resulted in a total machine hang after ~3 seconds of trying to load the aic7xxx module.
yes if you machine isn't in the bios version list of the 440gx blacklist you'll have no chance of booting at all. I've added your bios to the list so the next build will boot. Unfortionatly our support for the 440GX platform is minimal and best-effort only due to lack of programming information required to make these machines work.
What changes do I need to make to get this installed--is it something in the kernel or in anaconda?
you need a rebuilt kernel see the arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c file it has a whole list of 440GX bioses, but not yours yet. Add an entry for yours and it'll work :)
The BIOS release notes for the 440GX boards detailed here: ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/3306/ENG/Relnotes.txt specify all of the BIOS numbers possible. An example of the latest BIOS (which I happen to have): BLD Date L440GX+ 133 3/26/01 L440GX+ Production Release 14.3 Based on BUILD 132 1. Banner Roll to Production Release 14.3. 2. Updated microcode update for CPUID 683h B-0 stepping processors to revision 13. The DMI BIOS number is L440GX0.86B.0133.P14, showing the the build and production number. Thus we can deduce the rest of the BIOS versions from the list, which should cover all of the BIOSes for the board. I can gather that information and post it here if you would like.
Created attachment 90316 [details] dmi_scan patch including the newest BIOS
Giving Alan the opportunity to consider these for -ac...
Great job getting the BIOSes in Red Hat Linux 9! I was able to install it on my 440GX board where Phoebe 3 would not.