I have a Dual P3 650mhz machine with 2 9gig scsi drives. I can boot off of the 2004.2 Universal LiveCD, and at the boot prompt I run: smp doscsi This stops once it reaches the "sym53c8xx" module. I attempted this again, this time leaving out the "doscsi" and the install stops once it detects the scsi drives. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Obtain 2004.2 LiveCD 2. Attempt installation using the "smp" kernel Actual Results: stops at the "sym53c8xx" module when using "doscsi", or stops once it detects the scsi drives when not using "doscsi". Expected Results: The module is properly loaded and the install continues, or it detects the scsi drives and continues on with the installation process.
So do you have a Symbios card in your system?
No. Both drives connect to the motherboard.
What motherboard do you have?
I hit this earlier today, trying to boot the smp kernel. Using the commandline: smp-nofb acpi=ht doscsi nodhcp I'm on an ASUSTeK P4C800-E, I needed doscsi for the libata SATA stuff, I dont have any physical (non-emulated) scsi devices. the last thing displayed is "scsi_transport_spi". I went ahead and used the up kernel, but the smp one would have been nice :) Any idea what's causing this Chris?
I'm having the same issue. When it hangs, the last few lines on the screen are: :: Scanning for pci2000... module not found :: Scanning for seagate... module not found :: Scanning for sym53c8xx...scsi_transport_spi, I am using the Tyan Thunder K7X Pro (S2469UGN) with onboard scsi. I've tried all 4 available kernels (gentoo gentoo-nofb smp smp-nofb) and I've also tried all of the permutations of "nousb", "noapic" and "doscsi". When I use the gentoo or gentoo-nofb kernels with doscsi it hangs while scanning for aic7xxx. When I use either smp kernel, it hangs with the above info. If I don't use doscsi, it boots fine, but doesn't detect my scsi drives. Doing the modprobes later dosn't seem to make it work either.
I am experiencing exactly the same issue as Jarrod. I am running on a Gigabyte GA-6BXDS mobo which has an Adaptec AIC-7895P SCSI chip on it. It has 2xPIII 550Mhz CPU and 384Mb RAM. I have left it sitting on the sym53c8xx prompt for 30mins. I've also tried pulling all of the PCI cards out of the PC but still the same. Only other thing in it is an AGP ATI Rage IIC graphics card.
Are you guys booting from a SCSI CDROM? That is the *only* reason why you should be using doscsi. As for the libata stuff, I am pretty sure that you do not need to use doscsi. Instead, you should let hotplug do its job and detect your "scsi" card. See, doscsi is a method to preload all of the SCSI modules for CDROM booting. It isn't intended to be used to enable/disable SCSI support.
Yes, you are quite correct, It must have been late when I wrote that, I do have a scsi cdrom, which is why I was using doscsi :)
Yes, I have to use doscsi as I am using a Plextor 40x CD-ROM drive which is the only drive in the system. If this isn't easily fixed though I can probably find an IDE drive to get the machine installed.
oops, forgot to mention, yes the plextor CD drive is SCSI. It's hanging off of the same on-board SCSI controller as the SCSI harddrives.
Oh no... this needs to be fixed... I just wanted to make sure you guys weren't running doscsi unecessarily. It looks like this will be one more module to disable by default in the doscsi menu... which is not good... What kind of scsi cards do you all have?
I've been monitoring this bug since the 2004.2 Universal CD came out. As you requested my configuration as follows: Athlon MP 1600 Tyan Tiger MPX S2466N Adaptec PCI 29160N Regards, Tai
Well... 2004.3 is out now, so try that one.
