Bug 152486 - can't install beta4 on Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter
Summary: can't install beta4 on Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 4
Hardware: x86 Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2006-02-21 14:19 UTC by Forgotten User WWATXcldtK
Modified: 2006-02-22 09:23 UTC (History)
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Description Forgotten User WWATXcldtK 2006-02-21 14:19:48 UTC 
Boot beta4 with acpi=off - installation ends because can't see disks, but devices (adapter and disks) are recognized, aic7xxx module is loaded. When after installation ends manualy load module, than say that module already is there. But network installation don't work too :(
Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-02-21 15:26:33 UTC 
OK let's start from the beginning.
Is it necesarry for you to install with ACPI=off? What does happen if you perform a normal installation?
Comment 2 Forgotten User WWATXcldtK 2006-02-21 15:53:50 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> OK let's start from the beginning.
> Is it necesarry for you to install with ACPI=off? What does happen if you
> perform a normal installation?
> 

if acpi isn't off than scsi adapter can't be initialized or something -
ACPI Warning (pci_lin-0386): PCI Interrupt Link [LN04] disabled and referenced, BIOS bug [20060127]
ACPI Warning (pci_lin-0407): PCI Interrupt Link [LN04] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 9 [20060127]

than

0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message ... bla-la-la

I myself installed on than box suse 9.3 and 10.0, and when installed always switched off ACPI, after installation than wasn't nessesary.
Comment 3 Michael Gross 2006-02-21 17:11:31 UTC 
Try booting with a combination of pci=routeirq and pci=noacpi, does this help anything?
Comment 4 Forgotten User WWATXcldtK 2006-02-22 08:37:25 UTC 
Thx, that helped.
Comment 5 Michael Gross 2006-02-22 09:23:59 UTC 
OK then this is most likely caused by a buggy BIOS. I think we can consider this resolved then ;) Maby a BIOS-update also does the trick.