aic7xxx hangs on install

[Timothy Murphy]

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:46, Danny Yee wrote:
> I have a couple of systems where the FC1 install hangs loading the
> aic7xxx driver...
>
> The annoying thing is that I don't actually need the aic7xxx driver
> loaded for the install (all that's on that controller is a tape
> drive) -- but I haven't worked out how to disable it for the install.
> Any advice?

You could try "linux noprobe".
I had a similar problem which was solved by using the drvdisk.img floppy
(after the bootdisk.img floppy).
As soon as I got Fedora installed I compiled a vanilla kernel.

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