IBM 365 desktop, with dual Pentium Pro CPU's (256k cache) clocked at 200Mhz, 128Mb RAM, and the following PCI cards : Adaptec 2940AU, S3 Trio GFX, and 3COM 3C59x NIC. If I boot the i686 CD1 with the "doscsi" kernel option, it detects aic7xxx, but then hangs scanning for "old aic7xxx". If I omit the "doscsi" option, i686 CD1 boots fine, and when I enter "lsmod", I can see the aic7xxx module is loaded. However, as soon as I try and format sda1 (mkreiserfs /dev/sda1), I get the Y/N prompt...select "Y", and the system hangs. This is with the latest i686 CD1 of Gentoo 1.4, dated 20030806. I don't get any of the above problem(s) when I boot from the 1.4 RC4 CD I've burnt the i686 CD1 ISO (20030806) twice, incase there was a problem with the CD-R.....no difference. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. At kernel prompt : "smp doscsi noapm dokeymap" 2. Press "space" at prompt for screen res. 3. wait for storage detection......hangs on "old aic7xxx" Actual Results: System hung. Expected Results: continued to boot up I propose to swap out the SCSI card for a straight 2940, see if that makes any difference. Also, for testing purposes, I could dispense with the 3Com NIC. Could also try booting the "gentoo" kernel, instead of the "smp" kernel. As last resort, could remove a CPU and its VRM
Assigning to pfeifer so he can look into the kernel issue
I get the same results with a single athlon xp and abit kg7 motherboard. pci adaptec 2940u2w, pci adaptec 2400a, pci sound blaster 16, agp ati video card, pci intel 10/100 nic i see aic7xxx load and then the computer hangs when aic7xxx_old tries to load/probe. x86 livecd 20030911-cd1 booted with option 'doscsi'.
Abit BP6 with AHA2940 gets stuck at "old aic7xxx"
I have the same problem with an Asus P2B-S motherboard containing an Adaptec 2940U2W controller. When booting the gentoo kernel with the doscsi option from the latest live-cd (i686-1.4-20030911-cd1.iso), the aic7xxx module loads fine but the system hangs when trying to load the aic7xxx_old module. Motherboard bios and scsi controller bios are flashed to the latest available versions.
Same problem here. Dell Poweredge 4300 Dual P3/500. Adaptec 7890 Controller. Hangs sytem on boot from x86 Basic LiveCD. Options were "smp cdcache doscsi"
old bug, reopen if necessary
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
