[rhn-users] New RHEL-AS-4

[Richard Lefebvre]

Is there a way to the custom ram image on a bootable CDs from which I
can install AS4? Unfortunattly, my academic license doesn't provide me
with technical support.

I would be happy to use create an seperate driver CD (the system
does not have a floppy) but when I tried to see if the system will
let me do that, I can't eject the current CD and it asked for a driver
disk in /dev/hdc.

Richard

Geoff Sweet wrote:
> I am going to have to assume that there must be bigger problems with the
> aic79xx driver.  We are still waiting for a kernel fix that resolves a
> kernel panic that occurs on our Dell servers.  It occurs when this
> driver loads.  So far RH tech support can only tell us to build a custom
> ram image using older drivers and wait for the next kernel release.  So
> far 2 kernel releases have not resolved the issue (granted one of them
> was a very minor release).  If there are going to continue to be
> unexplainable issues with this driver, I am going to have to re-think
> using RH.
> 
> What kills me, and no one can answer me this; two machines with
> identical images (via ghost), one will have the kernel panic, the other
> won't.  It is very inconsistent.  
> 
> Geoff Sweet
> Internet Operations Engineer
> WildTangent Inc
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Richard Lefebvre
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 1:51 PM
> To: Red Hat Network Users List
> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] New RHEL-AS-4
> 
> I had tried the "linux noprobe" already, it gets me a bit further, but I
> still need a the aic79xx driver at some point. So when I loaded later it
> got stuck again (without the IRQ message).
> 
> Richard
> 
> GREG WOJTAK wrote:
> 
>>I remember seeing something about this with RHEL 3, where you had to
>>give the aic79xx driver a noprobe option otherwise it would hang.  I'm
>>sorry I can't remember the exact option, but maybe try Googling for
> 
> that
> 
>>and see if you can get that working.
>>
>>
>>Greg Wojtak
>>Unix Systems Administrator
>>Sallie Mae
>>(317) 598-4058
>>
>>
>>
>>>>>Richard.Lefebvre at rqchp.qc.ca 2/17/2005 4:26:57 PM >>>
>>
>>Any one got the RHEL-AS-4 CD1 to work with a SCSI only for harddrives.
>>
>>Basically, the CD boots OK up to the point of loading the SCSI
> 
> drivers,
> 
>>at which point I get:
>>
>>Loading SCSI Driver
>>Loading aic79xx driver... Disabling IRQ #5
>>
>>The disabling message appears about 30 seconds later with out the 
>>colored background (i.e. error message) Then nothing happens.
>>
>>The computer is OK since I was able to install AS-3 (update 4) last
>>week 
>>with no problem. I wanted to install the new from scratch since the 
>>setup of the server wasn't finished yet.
>>
>>Richard
> 
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