Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 07:27 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: >> 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 >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> 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 > > Please point to the CentOS bug too in the upstream bug entry (if you > need to add one) .. as I get tired of seeing posts describing how CentOS > Developers / Users are parasites who take from Red Hat and give nothing > back. > > If we discover and document a problem on CentOS, and it is later > determined to be an upstream issue that they do not currently have in > bugzilla then a link to the CentOS bugs site helps document that CentOS > is a good Open Source player ... and not a bunch of leeches. > > We already know this, of course :D ... it seems some other people could > stand to figure it out though. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hi, I found out (in the Fedore archives ;-) that the boot option "nodmraid" (for the install kernel) would be helpful. I checked it, and this really helps: the installation is totally performed - no hangup, and afterwards the system runs with centOS 5. Regards -- Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK], Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany -------------------------------------------------- Phone: +49-631-205-2438, FAX: +49-631-205-3056 http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 6088 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070423/1dd0a231/attachment-0005.bin>