From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Installer begins normal with booting from cdrom, asks which language, then keyboard setting, type of media (Local CDROM) and then says it can not find the Red Hat CDROM in any of the CDROMS (even though there is just one). When I select "Local CDROM", it indicates that the cdrom is not found (though it never tries to hunt on the cdrom). Checking f4 screen, it shows huge errors on the ATAPI device cdrom (status error: status=0x00 {} and status error: error=0x00) several times around. I am assuming something is not going well when trying this ide device. Perhaps a missed or improper driver loaded for the ide bus? I have tried nodma, biosirq (this helped out another error) and noapic to no avail. Also, I have tried both NFS images and FTP but even the NIC fails to be activated. I need to get this solved ASAP or will have to move to a different distribution. TIA, Chris Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): have tested 7.3, 8, 9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot into installer 2.Anser language, keyboard and then mdeia questions 3.N/A Actual Results: Failed to detect cdrom Expected Results: Install of RH Additional info:
Compaq Evo N1015v with DVD-ROM, Athlon XP 1800, Realtek RTL8139C+ NIC, 30G HD, ALi 710X (7101) Chip-set. TIA, Chris
This is either a bad CD or a kernel issue with this IDE chipset I believe. I think I've seen one other report.
I used Suse this weekend to get around the problem. It appears that as soon as the USB drivers are loaded, the ide bus goes south. The question to redhat, how can I get the install kernel not to load any usb module? Under suse, they have a manual mode that allows me to say no to the USB drivers and subsequently install. I can not find this option in RedHat (7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0) and yes, I have now bought all of them. Please let me know if this is possible with RH. TIA, Chris
it surely is possible you have to pass "nousb" as kernel option; you can do this on the grub screen by pressing the "a" or "e" keys (for the vmlinuz line); on the linux: installer screen you also can type "nousb". Also pleae see bug 72387 for other radeonIGP issues
For Red Hat 9 you need "nousb and/or ide=nodma" either will work. I'm still trying to finalise support for this chipset but there are complications. I think no current distribution supports it well. The good news is that you can certainly make Red Hat 8, 9 and Mandrake 9.x run on it. I'd recommend reading: http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/%7Epavlidmh/Linux_on_a_Presario_900.html This site has custom kernels with the needed changes and required ACPI support etc
Okay, tried the "nousb" option this worked. In order to get around this bad (crappy) chipset, you also need the nopcmcia and noprobe options. I am now installing RH on the laptop. Thanks for the help. Will give the mentioned website a gander. Thanks. Chrisb