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| Summary: | Installer fails on SATA hard-drive | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 | Reporter: | Billy Allan <billy> |
| Component: | Kernel | Assignee: | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Critical | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | trenn |
| Version: | RC 1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86-64 | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Found By: | Other | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
| Attachments: | Output from boot logs, lspci etc on a Centos 4.1 install on the same system | ||
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Description
Billy Allan
2005-09-14 13:10:38 UTC
Created attachment 49899 [details]
Output from boot logs, lspci etc on a Centos 4.1 install on the same system
Sorry - typo, the system is an HP dx5150, not a dx5151. kernel issue I think this is related to another similar bug. Could you please check the other virtual consoles for oops messages? There are no oops messages - as I said, the kernel seems to still be running fine - just the installer freezes looking for the file. Output on the other tty's is : insmod /modules/libata.ko insmod /modules/sata_sil.ko ... ata1: SATA mac UDMA/100 ....... ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 78165360 sectors : lba48 No errors at all. I can switch to the open console and type commands quite happily. Just wondering if there is any update on this? I have 300 machines that I have to either install SuSE 10 on or RHEL ... if I can't test SuSE then it's a RHEL switchover for us... You could check where the installer hangs. Do echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger and then dmesg and check the backtraces of the yast2 processes and their children (if all fails use a digital camera to photograph them, otherwise serial console) Hi, At the point the system fails there isn't a workable shell which I can use to echo things into /proc/ - dmesg isn't available either. Billy. Hi, I've now tried SuSE 10 final and the system doesn't even get as far as it did before. If I go into text-mode for the installer then the last entries I see now are : [ For "Safe settings" & "ACPI Disabled" ] PCI : Probing PCI hardware PCI : Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) [ For regular install ] ACPI : Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] ACPI : Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0 Billy. Sorry - forgot to change the status. Updated. Hi, I experienced he same problem trying to install Suse Linux 9.3 on a 32 bit PC. Installing onto an EIDE drive had worked fine. When I replaced the EIDE with a SATA drive the install faled as described. I have now moved to Suse 10.0. The installer runs until a reboot is required (end of CD 1). The reboot fails. Following messages appear during boot sequence SCSI device sda : drive cache : write back sda : sda1 sda2 sda3 (sda5 sda6) Attached SCSI disk sda at SCSI 0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 (Loads more normal boot messages) Waiting for device /dev/sda5 to appear (Note - swap partition) ... resume device /dev/sda5 not found (ignoring) Loading reiserfs Waiting for device /dev/sda6 to appear (Note - root partition) ... not found -- exiting to /bin/sh ata1: command 0x25, timeout, stat 0x50, host_stat 0x4 (Note - above line repeats every few seconds). When I boot from a Gentoo CD (Linux Rescue Disk) I can mount /dev/sda6 without any problems. The filesystem is populated with all the CD 1 packages. Any help appreciated. Thanks - Steve Does pci=noacpi help (especially for comment #9)? Closing due to lack of info. |