Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] Crash on install....

Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] Crash on install....

[Paul de Vrieze]

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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Crash on install....
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:40:01 -0600
From: Mark Berry <mark@smorland.com>
To: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@cs.kun.nl>

Ok, I booted off the CD, and manually mod-probed my devices... and I
found where it was hanging, the SCSI card.

It appears the aic7xxxx driver is hanging it.  (Leading to a kernel panic).

it's an adaptec 29160 card, which I imagine is a very common card.  I am
pretty sure the hardware is fine as I have a copy of win2k booting off
the SCSI disk fine.


hmm... looking at the card itself, it appears that the chipset on the
label isn't 7x but 8x (3860q).  That could be the problem.


I will try as you mentioned booting off another ISO and see if that
changes anything, but my guess it's the SCSI card.

Cheers

.mark

Paul de Vrieze wrote:
>On Friday 26 July 2002 23:15, Mark Berry wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Sorry if I am posting to the wrong place, but I am trying to figure out
>>why the installer is hard-crahing my computer and maybe I could get a
>>few hints on where to start poking.
>>
>>It appears to be hanging on the PCI Autoprobe. My hardware is a Dual CPU
>>P3, w/a Adaptec SCSI3 disk controller.  Intel etherexpress network card
>>and a NVIDIA m64 vidio card.
>>
>>I have not had any problems installing other variants of linux on it,  I
>>would like to submit a more helpful bug report but I guess I would like
>>some tips on locating a more specific problem and maybe a fix, if
>>someone can point me in the right direction.
>>
>>Thanks
>
>Could you be more detailed in where it goes wrong. Maybe also try some
>alternate (older) iso's. As a last resort you could try a non-gentoo kernel.
>
>Paul

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