AMD64 install failure on LSI Megaraid.

[Sam Varshavchik]

Eric Wood writes:

>> The only other detail here is that the Megaraid card is in the 32 bit PCI
>> slot.  For some reason I can't boot the machine with the Megaraid card in
>> the 64 bit slot.
> 
> What's kind of motherboard are you using?  Have you flash your RAID card
> with the latest BIOS.  I did so on my 320-1 card and I believe it made it
> compatible with the latest driver.

It's an Accelertech ATO2161 dual-Opteron motherboard.  I just flashed the 
320-1 to the latest BIOS, also flashed the latest BIOS to the motherboard, 
and it made no difference.  The partitions format OK, but as soon as it 
begins copying the packages, a slew of disk errors come out on tty4, and the 
install aborts.

I'm wondering whether this has anything to do with me putting the 320-1 card 
into a 32-bit PCI slot, because that's the only way I could get the machine 
to boot at all.  If I put the card into one of the 64bit slots, the machine 
does not survive the POST.

Although this does point to a hardware issue, I note that I can format the 
RAID partitions, and I can manually use dd to write over the entire 
partition without reporting any errors whatsoever.  It's only when Anaconda 
starts installing stuff does all the hell break loose.

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