Anyone have a solution for this problem. I can install RedHat on this machine and the USB works fine in the installer, but when i try to load the system it hangs when it tries to load the EHCI driver?

Thanks

hello,
you could wait until kernel 2.4.19 comes out or get the pacthes for 2.4.18 that may have ehci, or get kernel 2.5.3

RH 7.3 has EHCI built into kernel 2.4.18. Thats the problem, it hangs while trying to load that.

USB does really annoy me...then you just gotta install 7.2...

RH 7.2 doesn't have EHCI, try latest 2.5 kernel (2.5.24), I just compiled it on my horsey, works fine so far, the only thing I can't get lm_sensors to show what they are supposed to show (ABIT KT7-RAID, AMD Athlon 850 MHz Thunderbird)

Ok.. ill give it a try...

Thanks

are you positive that it's freezing while loading the USB stuff?

i have one of the new i845g boards, the epox 4g4a+, and your problem sympton seems incredibly like the one I experienced. i thought it was the usb stuff too, but it turns out that it actually was freezing at the point right after loading the usb stuff. it froze while attempting to load the disk volumes; and the cause was that the RAID controller on my board is not driver supported by the out-of-the-box red hat 7.3/7.2/etc.

Your board has the Promise 20276 controller, while mine has the HighPoint 372; both of which will have integrated support with kernel 2.4.19 and after. Even just disabling the RAID controller didn't seem to help. What I did to get my RH going was to go to the HighPoint tech support, and get their drivers for RH. everything worked fine.

and i chose my mb with the highpoint, rather than the promise, because high point puts out the linux drivers on their website; something that, at least until now, promise doesn't seem to do, or at least I have trouble finding drivers on their website for their 20276 chipset under Linux.

So, your real problem may perhaps be the RAID chip problem; try disabling the Promise controller on your mobo and see what happens. My install went fine, boot went fine until it reported successfully starting the USB services, then the disk subsystem (raid-linked) froze my linux boot.

Nah, it was the USB stuff.

What I did was commented out the line in the modules.conf that was loading the EHCI module and now it boots fine.

Ah well, its a server so it doesn't really need USB 2

I know this is a very basic newbie question but I am having the same problem on my GA-8IHXP motherboard. How do you edit the file on the Linux partition if you can't boot? I need to fix this too. Thanks.

i have that EXACT board and im on redhat 7.3
EDIT: I lied, i have the GA-8IHXP...same board as far as i know, mabye a diffrent bios. Same problem though. =)

Mine froze on boot at the USB as well, however, all i did was unplug my USB camera and it booted fine with no problems. mabye you have something in one of the ports that is incompatable and thats why you had to comment it out. Just an idea.

Hmm.. maybe...

But what i did to fix it was edit /etc/modules.conf and remove the EHCI module