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

Fri Apr 20 08:38:07 UTC 2007
Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de>

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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