On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 22:27 -0400, John DeDourek wrote: > Basically, we have a bunch of lab machines that we would like to upgrade > to FC3. > Unfortunately, the install kernel panics on attempting access to the > CDRom. This > appears to be basically a Kernel 2.6 problem and therefore we can > install neither > FC2 nor FC3 on these machines. In any case, the announcement was just > posted > that FC2 was moving to legacy in the near future. > > The bug is well described in Bugzilla #115458 at > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115458 > The likelyhood is that this appears on older, slow hardware where the CDRom > access times out and the error recovery panics the kernel. > > Does anyone have a workaround for this that will get these machines > installed? > It's an isolated lab (networking experimentation) so is generally not > linked to the > campus network; therefore a network install is not an easy option; > busides, we > suspect that we would panic anytime the CDRom was accessed under the running > kernel as well. > > We have tried using hdc=ide-scsi ... this does get past the crash in the > installation, > but then Anaconda can't find the installation CD. (Possibly looking at > a link to /dev/hdc > instead of to the appropriate SCSI drive?) > > The Bugzilla description has an analysis of the stack trace by Alan > Cox. But I'm afraid > thate we're not yet experienced enough here to understand how to use > that information > to locate the apparent kernel bug. > > Any help or pointers would be appreciated. > This may be helped by adding ide=nodma to the boot line, and also maybe by installing in text mode.
