Re: [Cooker] [Bug 880] [kernel] Can't boot because of HighPoint HPT370 RAID

[Bruno Prior]

We just tried to install 9.1beta3 to our new server (a Gigabyte board
with an HPT372 controller). We can't even get to the first stage of
installation. After lilo, the system tries to load for around 5 seconds
before rebooting. First drive and DVD-ROM is on the onboard controller.
Second drive is on the HPT372. So the HPT372 shouldn't really matter at
that stage of the installer, but something is screwing it up.

Incidentally, installation of 9.0 also fails, because the system claims
not to be able to find the CD-ROM drive (the one it is installing from)
and asks what SCSI module we want to load. ide-scsi etc. do not help.
Nor does passing ide=nodma or hdc=ide-cd.

Don't know if this is related to the original bug report, but the HPT372
seems to be trouble. We also cannot get hde running with a vanilla
2.4.20 kernel on gentoo. We are in the process of trying
2.4.21-pre4-ac1, in the hope the ac patch will help.

Bruno Prior


[Bug 880] wrote:
> https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880
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> ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-02 05:35 -------
> To follow up: 9.1 beta3 is installed and booting from a drive on the hpt372
> controller on Iwill XP 333-R, latest bios. DMA is automatically enabled on all
> hd disks and everything seems to be working well for my setup. Hopefully, this
> will also work for the many posters at MUO Board and Club who have run into
> non-usability problems with this controller and at least parity has been
> achieved with the reportedly functional Red Hat, SUSE, and Knoppix kernels. I
> don't do RAID, so maybe someone else could test that.
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> I just installed Mandrake 9.1 Beta 2 and after install I can't boot it. The only
> thing I get on screen is some debug info and some error message about /dev/hde.
> On keyboard Caps lock and Scroll Lock are flashing and the only thing I can do
> is turn off the computer. /dev/hde is a hard drive on HightPint HPT370 RAID
> controler that is integrated onto motherboard Abit KT7A-RAID. Mandrake 9.0 boots
> just fine on the same computer. The BIOS version is A9 and the BIOS version of
> HPT370 is 2.34.
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