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    fedora 7: loading ata_piix driver

    due to my situation, i've always been doing HARD DISK INSTALL

    1, mount the iso file to a dir
    cd dir/isolinux
    cp vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-6
    cp initrd.img /boot/initrd-6.img

    2, modify /boot/grub/grub.conf:
    title FC6 installer
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-6
    initrd /boot/initrd-6.img

    then boot the installer and point it to the iso file, and that's it

    but with the new driver change (i think), i'm stuck at "loading ata_piix driver"

    any idea how to *beat* this? thanks
    PS: my hd is PATA

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    I always wanted to try that.

    Where did you get "vmlinuz" from?

    If that came from a f7 repo , what was the path you got it from?

    .../linux/7/os/?????

    If that IS good then it may be other things like noapcia is needed.

    SJ


    Oh, it's from the iso!! n/m
    Last edited by SlowJet; 2nd June 2007 at 06:43 AM.
    Do the Math

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    i just heard a similar problem on irc, except it's via_pata
    and according to the person:
    i had to wait 10 mins
    then it continued

    the next time i try, i'll wait longer to see what happens... lol

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    giving it more time doesn't help, still stuck at "loading ata_piix driver"

    any one?

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    here's more detail:

    <3> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
    <3> ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
    <4> res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)

    the above repeat on and on and on...

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    and more detail about hw:

    00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 05)
    00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller (rev 05)

    no sata hd, just one pata hd and one cdrom

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    I have the same problem, except that I am doing a completely normal installation from DVD (using the F-7-i386-DVD.iso image).
    After booting, I select 'install' from the menu, but when it gets to 'Loading SCSI driver" - "Loading ata_piix driver..." everything stops. I have tried waiting 30 minutes, but no joy.
    Hardware: Compaq AP550 with only IDE drive installed.
    Enabling/disabling the internal SCSI controller seems to make no difference.

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    i've seen some similar problem in mail list like "Loading pata_it821x driver"

    it seems this new driver change is indeed causing some problems

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    Joy at last....

    My problem is fixed. After some experimenting I discovered that my IDE ribbon cable was the wrong way round. Meaning, the red stripe was not next to pin 1. However, it was the wrong way round at both ends, so I would have expected it to work.

    Curiously, the wrong-way-round setup works perfectly for fedora 6. Only the fedora 7 installation goes wrong.

    I don't understand how this can be, but that's life.

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    I've been having the same problem with it hanging on "loading ata_piix driver". I'm attempting to install Fedora 7 onto a Compact Flash drive which is connected through a PATA adapter that I'm led to believe makes it behave like a normal PATA drive.

    Possible solutions which I've found reference to on the internet and have failed for me include adding the following boot options (trying each by itself):
    brokenmodules=piix
    brokenmodules=ata_piix
    noapic
    nousb
    ide=nodma

    Also failed was a suggestion I found to add the boot option "noprobe" ("nostorage" will do the same thing as far as this issue is concerned) and manually select the ata_piix driver.

    I will let you know if I find anything which works for me.

    edit: Additional boot options which failed for me were: "irqpoll" and "all-generic-ide". I'm not sure if all of the boot options I've mentioned here actually exist, but none of them caused additional errors.

    After spending all day on this, I'm giving it up as a lost cause. I'll keep an eye on the thread in case anyone solves the problem, but until then it looks like I'll be going back to FC6.
    Last edited by theoldestnoob; 5th June 2007 at 04:13 PM.

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    tried some of those from similar situations i found with google, so far none works for me either
    i tend to believe this is a kernel/driver issue, i'm dropping this as well

    until fedora 8 test release...

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    See Red Hat Bugzilla - Bug #242111

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=242111

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    thanks, already checked bugzilla for similar cases but like i said in post: #4
    "giving it more time doesn't help"

    unfortunately, unlike bug 242111, mine just hangs there and there is no "after that"...

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    same problem with fedora 8...

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    Talking ata_piix hang

    Some older motherboards tend to opt for the cheap way of piggy backing the sata/ide ICH6 channels on the same channel as the IDE/SCSI channels. When the ata_piix module tries to read the storage on these channels it throws a wobbly.

    Try changing your sata ports to the last 2 on the motherboard, usually sata port 4 or 5 / 6 or 7. These two are usually the only 2 that are dedicated ICH6 ports.

    Motherboards that are affected are ASUS running JMicron and others with the same chipsets.

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