On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 21:27, Pete Nesbitt wrote: > On December 22, 2003 05:08 pm, C. Linus Hicks wrote: > > Whenever I try to boot the installer for 8.0 or 9, my system takes a > > hard hang. I finally tracked it down to the insmod/modprobe on the > > parport_pc module. I tried doing that on my curent system (RH 7.1) and > > the same thing happens. > > > > Here's the thing: I have the parallel port disabled in the BIOS because > > I don't use it, so I wouldn't really expect the low-level driver to be > > able to do much with it. However, it's not nice that it hangs the system > > and I'm wondering if there's a problem with my motherboard or in the > > parport_pc driver. And does anybody have any suggestions on how to > > determine this? I tried enabling the parallel port in the BIOS using > > 0x378 and irq 7 which I believe are the defaults, but the installer > > still hangs on the insmod. > > > > Is there a way to tell the installer to not load the parport drivers? Or > > to give arguments to it? It didn't hang my current system when I tried > > doing an insmod io=0x378 irq=none. > > > > My motherboard is Tyan S2567U3AN Thunder HE-SL ServerWorks chipset. > > > Hi, > I have never needed to use it, but there is an install option "noprobe". As I > understand, you need to tell it all about at least enough of your hardware to > get through the install, then probably kadzu can fill in the additional stuff > on first boot. > > HTH > -- > Pete Nesbitt, rhce I've tried noprobe and it is only useful with drivers for things like SCSI adapters where there can be multiple choices. There's only one parallel port driver, so the installer doesn't give you any choice with it. -- C. Linus Hicks <lhicks@xxxxxxxxx> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
