[CentOS] Centos5 installer hangs up with promise sata controller on board

[Joachim Backes]

Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Phil Schaffner wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 06:58 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> curently running centos4.4 with a board having promise sata controller.
>>> If I try to update to centos-5, the installer hangs up.
>>>
>>> No problems under centos-4.4.
>>>
>>> Does somebody know a workaround for this problem?
>>>
>>> In the mailing list archives I found a similar report, but no solution.
>> No solution, no known work-around except a major kludge with a FC6
>> kernel.  Please add comments to the BZ report:
>>
>> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1879
> 
> Can anyone reproduce that bug on a RHEL5 box? If it really is a
> kernel/init bug, it should be reported upstream.
> 
> Ralph
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Hi,

both FC6 and RHEL5 show exactly the same behaviour, that means the installer hangs
during install on promise sata controller. I will file a bug to RedHat and Fedora.

Regards

Joachim Backes

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