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| Whoever 2005-09-30, 2:50 am |
| I have been trying to install RedHat Enterprise Workstation 4 on a system
based on the Intel 945G chipset with a SATA disk.
By configuring the drive mode to be ATA/IDE in the BIOS, I was able to
install the OS (but very slow, because disk access is very slow).
I was able to download some updates -- including a later kernel, but now
the system won't boot with the latest kernel (it still boots with the
older kernel). The new (non-booting) kernel is 2.6.9-11 (with a -EL or
similar suffix, I am not in front of the system right now).
The error messages are:
IDE0: I/O Resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free.
IDE0: ports already in use, skipping probe
mkrootdev: label / not found
Does anyone have any ideas what is going wrong and how to fix it?
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| Anne & Lynn Wheeler 2005-10-02, 8:50 pm |
| Whoever <nobody@devnull.none> writes:
> I have been trying to install RedHat Enterprise Workstation 4 on a system
> based on the Intel 945G chipset with a SATA disk.
>
> By configuring the drive mode to be ATA/IDE in the BIOS, I was able to
> install the OS (but very slow, because disk access is very slow).
>
> I was able to download some updates -- including a later kernel, but now
> the system won't boot with the latest kernel (it still boots with the
> older kernel). The new (non-booting) kernel is 2.6.9-11 (with a -EL or
> similar suffix, I am not in front of the system right now).
as an aside ... does FC4 install handle SATA disks. FC3 did a clean
install on a machine I have with SATA raid. However, somewhere in the
FC3 cycle ... the YUM kernel installs dropped SATA support. Then
after doing a YUM kernel install ... i would have to rebuild the
FC3 kernel with SATA support before rebooting ... aka
/sbin/mkinitrd --with=sata_promise --with=ata_piix --with=sd_mod
-f initrd-2.6.12-1.1378_FC3smp.img 2.6.12-1.1378_FC3smp
a scratch FC4 install will wipe my FC3 bootable system ... but I don't
want to try it ... if the base FC4 install might fail to include SATA
support ...leaving me with an unbootable system.
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| Whoever 2005-10-02, 8:50 pm |
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On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
> Whoever <nobody@devnull.none> writes:
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> as an aside ... does FC4 install handle SATA disks.
I think you are asking the wrong question. I think the question should be:
"does FC4 support the particular SATA interface/chipset that I have?"
Clearly, I can't answer that.
I was able to get the system running in SATA mode by downloading the
latest stable kernel from kernel.org, configuring, building and installing
it. RedHat's beta kernel also failed to work with the same error message
as before.
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| In article <m3irwf4j4t.fsf@lhwlinux.garlic.com>,
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> wrote:
>as an aside ... does FC4 install handle SATA disks.
I'm running FC4 on SATA with no problems.
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http://www.spinics.net/linux/
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| Whoever 2005-11-04, 5:57 pm |
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On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, ellis@no.spam wrote:
> In article <m3irwf4j4t.fsf@lhwlinux.garlic.com>,
> Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> wrote:
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> I'm running FC4 on SATA with no problems.
From this page:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
"Note: There is no such thing as a distribution or its installer
(generically) "having SATA support" (or not). Please send anyone speaking
in such terms to this page. (Some SATA chipsets have been supported since
practically forever, as their programming interfaces are unchanged from
PATA predecessors. Others are brand-new and require new drivers from
scratch.)"
So the question is NOT "are you running SATA?", but, instead: "what SATA
chipset are you running?"
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| Scott Lurndal 2005-11-04, 5:57 pm |
| Whoever <nobody@devnull.none> writes:
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>On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, ellis@no.spam wrote:
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>From this page:
>http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
>
>"Note: There is no such thing as a distribution or its installer
>(generically) "having SATA support" (or not). Please send anyone speaking
>in such terms to this page. (Some SATA chipsets have been supported since
>practically forever, as their programming interfaces are unchanged from
>PATA predecessors. Others are brand-new and require new drivers from
>scratch.)"
>
>So the question is NOT "are you running SATA?", but, instead: "what SATA
>chipset are you running?"
Exactly. So far, the only one I've found that FC4 doesn't support
is the Broadcom HT1000. The rest I've used (sil and nvidia) are both
supported by FC4.
scott
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>Whoever <nobody@devnull.none> writes:
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>Exactly. So far, the only one I've found that FC4 doesn't support
>is the Broadcom HT1000. The rest I've used (sil and nvidia) are both
>supported by FC4.
I'm getting into this thread late & unfortunately don't have immediate
access to the specific model # of the offending Adaptec SATA raid
card, but we suffered a 2 out of 3 loss on our disk subsystem.
Running RHEL4 on a Supermicro 2U dual xeon. Apparently the raid
config got stomped on, as we rebuilt the system with same drives & it
all seems to be running ok now.
Dumb: yeah, rebuilding with same drives isn't wise.
Dumb: yeah, running a system originally having boot problems due to a
short caused by a broken-off heat sink vane isn't wise.
But, time was short & we didn't have an alternate system ready to take
the place of it. So, we took the chance...
From way back in early ultra-wide SCSI days, I've not been a fan of
Adaptec. I remember reading many horror stories of people trying to
run Adaptec [2740? 2940?] controllers, whereas my BusLogic ran & ran
& still runs without problem.
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| Andrew Gideon 2005-11-10, 6:03 pm |
| bgeer wrote:
> Running RHEL4 on a Supermicro 2U dual xeon
We've a fair number of Supermicro SATA board rack-mounts, including at least
one dual Xeon (in which I got involved because it is running Debian and we
don't do that too often). What I've found is that the BIOS configuration
for SATA is less than clear. In the case of the dual xeon I configured
myself, it looked like I had to disable SATA before Debian would
see /dev/sd? instead of /dev/hd?.
Weird.
- Andrew
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