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

Tue Apr 24 04:51:47 UTC 2007
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 13:33 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Can't get to my problematic system to test at the moment, but do recall
> seeing that reference and don't think it worked for me.  I do know that
> my system will not boot CentOS 5 with any of the CentOS kernels, but
> will run on recent Fedora or CentOS 4 kernels, as documented in
> 
> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1879
> 
> That references upstream
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186272
> 
>  There have been boot problems with different Promise controllers with
> somewhat different symptoms.  Mine is
> 
> 00:11.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20575 (SATAII150 TX2plus) (rev 02)
> 
> Not a RAID controller.   What exact hardware are you finding the
> nodmraid work-around helps on?

Promise PDC20319u SATA 150 RAID

JB

> 
> Phil
> 
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