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Bug 17683 - Unable to boot liveCD (1.4_rc3) having SCSI hardware (error: Spurious SCSI Interrupt)
Summary: Unable to boot liveCD (1.4_rc3) having SCSI hardware (error: Spurious SCSI I...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 All
: High blocker (vote)
Assignee: Bob Johnson (RETIRED)
URL: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.ph...
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Reported: 2003-03-17 08:04 UTC by Barbara Hegnauer
Modified: 2003-10-29 13:59 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Barbara Hegnauer 2003-03-17 08:04:27 UTC
After booting from the LiveCD (1.4_r3) and after selecting the keyboard layout 
several error messages appear with insmod not beeing able to locate the aic7xxx 
module and after that an endless loop of the the error message "scsi0: Spurious 
SCSI Interrupt" gets displayed.




This happens on the ASUS P2B-S and P2B-DS motherboard (I tested both of them), 
while trying to activate the internal (on-board) Adaptec SCSI controller.




The LiveCD 1.4RC3 is able to initialize any CD-ROM attached to the SCSI 
controller (and therefore mounting the LiveCD as loop device), but it is not 
possible to recognize the SCSI controller or any disc(s) attached to the SCSI 
controller.




the error does not appear with the Gentoo v1.4RC2 LiveCD.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
The error is always reproducable.



Actual Results:  
Unable to boot from LiveCD and unable to install gentoo.


Expected Results:  
Booting from LiveCD and therefore being able to install gentoo.
Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-04-11 18:12:14 UTC
please try livecd-experimental-rc4-04-10-03.iso
Comment 2 Barbara Hegnauer 2003-05-10 09:04:12 UTC
okay, I just tested the boot cd again (I tried the experimental live cd rc4-4-20-03). The SCSI CD-Rom still does not work.

I will just comment what is displayed on the screen (at least the messages related to the SCSI stuff):

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1:00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 
(this above line got displayed 3 times)
...
...
---- Mounting the CD
mount: Mounting /newroot/dev/cdroms/* on /newroot/mnt/cdrom failed: No such file or directory
---- CD not found
umount: /newroot: Device or resource busy

Comment 3 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-10-29 13:59:14 UTC
fixed with latest livecd