Noprobe : Crash at install of SCSI drivers (RH8 & 7.3)

["Alain Prasquier" <aprasquier odm-tech com>]

I tried with noprobe, and it crashes (=restarts) even before displaying
the "Loading SCSI drivers" screen...

Is there a way around this, or should I just try with some other
distribution ?

Alain

> Hi,
>  
> Installation of RH 8 crashes our dual PIII server just after the 
> install
> mode selection (expert, noprobe, text...) :
>  
> While installing SCSI drivers (aic7xxxx), the server REBOOTS without 
> ANY
> error message...  
>  I would strongly suspect a hardware problem  but  the RH 7.2  install

>  does work correctly...
>  
>  
> (We have had this problem with install of RH 7.3 and 8.0)...
>  
> Can anybody help ?

Try installing using the "noapic" option and see if that helps.  You may
also try "nodma" or a combination of the two.  The RH7.3 and 8.0 kernels
have problems with SOME hardware combinations.  Once the system is up
and running with the distribution kernel, these problems go away.

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