LinuxQuestions.org - Slackware installer does not boot. Stuck on Adaptec aacraid driver 1.1-5 [26400]-ms.

Well, over the summer I tried to install Slackware, but unfortunately the installer WON'T boot.

I downloaded the full DVD (all 4GiB) of Slackware 13.37, burned it, and put it in the drive. However, the installer won't show up because I'm stuck on this *bleep* Adaptec aacraid message >:-(

Here's an lspci, lsmod, and dmesg, as well as a /proc/cpuinfo (should that be of any help).

lspci:

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 10)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 10)

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)

00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01)

00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)

00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)

00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)

00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)

00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 01)

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)

02:00.0 Communication controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. Device 2f82

lsmod

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by

nls_utf8                992  1 

isofs                  28926  1 

ipv6                  247318  14 

fuse                  58501  2 

ext2                  54892  1 

arc4                    1086  2 

rt2800usb              12120  0 

rt2800lib              36992  1 rt2800usb

crc_ccitt              1095  1 rt2800lib

rt2x00usb              7720  1 rt2800usb

rt2x00lib              31059  3 rt2x00usb,rt2800lib,rt2800usb

mac80211              203700  3 rt2x00lib,rt2x00usb,rt2800lib

cfg80211              147716  2 mac80211,rt2x00lib

rfkill                12470  2 cfg80211

usblp                  9335  0 

iTCO_wdt                9941  0 

iTCO_vendor_support    1577  1 iTCO_wdt

i915                  370824  3 

drm_kms_helper        22653  1 i915

drm                  151588  4 drm_kms_helper,i915

snd_hda_codec_realtek  149985  1 

i2c_algo_bit            4487  1 i915

pcspkr                  1375  0 

serio_raw              3357  0 

video                  9716  1 i915

r8169                  41700  0 

intel_agp              8720  1 i915

intel_gtt              11513  3 intel_agp,i915

agpgart                22255  3 intel_gtt,intel_agp,drm

processor              23026  0 

psmouse                62706  0 

evdev                  7278  4 

snd_hda_intel          20050  2 

snd_hda_codec          75987  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek

snd_hwdep              4942  1 snd_hda_codec

snd_pcm                60595  2 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel

snd_timer              15438  1 snd_pcm

snd                    44501  10 snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek

soundcore              5018  1 snd

button                  3614  1 i915

snd_page_alloc          5869  2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel

i2c_i801                7063  0 

mii                    3407  1 r8169

i2c_core              16816  5 i2c_i801,i2c_algo_bit,drm,drm_kms_helper,i915

ext4                  377865  2 

mbcache                4281  2 ext4,ext2

jbd2                  60273  1 ext4

crc16                  1091  1 ext4

sr_mod                13244  1 

sd_mod                26211  5 

cdrom                  31437  1 sr_mod

pata_acpi              2388  0 

uhci_hcd              19673  0 

ata_piix              18270  5 

ehci_hcd              36010  0 

libata                146606  2 ata_piix,pata_acpi

scsi_mod              112826  3 libata,sd_mod,sr_mod

usbcore              122501  6 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd,usblp,rt2x00usb,rt2800usb

usb_common              622  1 usbcore

dmesg

Code:

[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset

[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu

[    0.000000] Linux version 3.2.1-1-ARCH (tobias@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.6.2 20111223 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 13 08:19:09 UTC 2012

[    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003f590000 (usable)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000003f590000 - 000000003f5e3000 (ACPI NVS)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000003f5e3000 - 000000003f5f0000 (ACPI data)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000003f5f0000 - 000000003f600000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)

[    0.000000] Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection cannot be enabled: non-PAE kernel!

[    0.000000] DMI 2.5 present.

[    0.000000] DMI: HP-Pavilion KL624AV-ABA a6410t/Boston, BIOS 5.05 03/21/2008

[    0.000000] e820 update range: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (usable) ==> (reserved)

[    0.000000] e820 remove range: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000 (usable)

[    0.000000] last_pfn = 0x3f590 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000

[    0.000000] MTRR default type: uncachable

[    0.000000] MTRR fixed ranges enabled:

[    0.000000]  00000-9FFFF write-back

[    0.000000]  A0000-BFFFF uncachable

[    0.000000]  C0000-CAFFF write-protect

[    0.000000]  CB000-EFFFF uncachable

[    0.000000]  F0000-FFFFF write-through

[    0.000000] MTRR variable ranges enabled:

[    0.000000]  0 base 000000000 mask FC0000000 write-back

[    0.000000]  1 base 03F700000 mask FFFF00000 uncachable

[    0.000000]  2 base 03F800000 mask FFF800000 uncachable

[    0.000000]  3 base 03F600000 mask FFFF00000 uncachable

[    0.000000]  4 disabled

[    0.000000]  5 disabled

[    0.000000]  6 disabled

[    0.000000]  7 disabled

[    0.000000] x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106

[    0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00f41f0] f41f0

[    0.000000] initial memory mapped : 0 - 00c00000

[    0.000000] Base memory trampoline at [c009b000] 9b000 size 16384

[    0.000000] init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-00000000377fe000

[    0.000000]  0000000000 - 0000400000 page 4k

[    0.000000]  0000400000 - 0037400000 page 2M

[    0.000000]  0037400000 - 00377fe000 page 4k

[    0.000000] kernel direct mapping tables up to 377fe000 @ bfb000-c00000]

[    0.000000] RAMDISK: 3f314000 - 3f580000

[    0.000000] Allocated new RAMDISK: 37592000 - 377fdb05

[    0.000000] Move RAMDISK from 000000003f314000 - 000000003f57fb04 to 37592000 - 377fdb04

[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000f8230 00024 (v02 HPQOEM)

[    0.000000] ACPI: XSDT 3f5e3080 00054 (v01 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 42302E31 AWRD 00000000)

[    0.000000] ACPI: FACP 3f5e7300 000F4 (v03 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 42302E31 AWRD 00000000)

[    0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 3f5e3240 04098 (v01 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 00001000 MSFT 03000000)

[    0.000000] ACPI: FACS 3f590000 00040

[    0.000000] ACPI: SLIC 3f5e74c0 00176 (v01 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 42302E31 AWRD 00000000)

[    0.000000] ACPI: HPET 3f5e7740 00038 (v01 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 42302E31 AWRD 00000098)

[    0.000000] ACPI: MCFG 3f5e7780 0003C (v01 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 42302E31 AWRD 00000000)

[    0.000000] ACPI: APIC 3f5e7400 00084 (v01 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 42302E31 AWRD 00000000)

[    0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 3f5e7e20 00380 (v01 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 00003000 INTL 20041203)

[    0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000

[    0.000000] 125MB HIGHMEM available.

[    0.000000] 887MB LOWMEM available.

[    0.000000]  mapped low ram: 0 - 377fe000

[    0.000000]  low ram: 0 - 377fe000

[    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:

[    0.000000]  DMA      0x00000010 -> 0x00001000

[    0.000000]  Normal  0x00001000 -> 0x000377fe

[    0.000000]  HighMem  0x000377fe -> 0x0003f590

[    0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node

[    0.000000] early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges

[    0.000000]    0: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009f

[    0.000000]    0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0003f590

[    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 259359

[    0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c05d3900, node_mem_map f6da1200

[    0.000000]  DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap

[    0.000000]  DMA zone: 0 pages reserved

[    0.000000]  DMA zone: 3951 pages, LIFO batch:0

[    0.000000]  Normal zone: 1744 pages used for memmap

[    0.000000]  Normal zone: 221486 pages, LIFO batch:31

[    0.000000]  HighMem zone: 252 pages used for memmap

[    0.000000]  HighMem zone: 31894 pages, LIFO batch:7

[    0.000000] Using APIC driver default

[    0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408

[    0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000

[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)

[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)

[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] disabled)

[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] disabled)

[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])

[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])

[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1])

[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] high edge lint[0x1])

[    0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])

[    0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23

[    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)

[    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)

[    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.

[    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.

[    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.

[    0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information

[    0.000000] ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a201 base: 0xfed00000

[    0.000000] SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 2 hotplug CPUs

[    0.000000] nr_irqs_gsi: 40

[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000

[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000

[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000

[    0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 3f600000 (gap: 3f600000:a0a00000)

[    0.000000] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware

[    0.000000] setup_percpu: NR_CPUS:8 nr_cpumask_bits:8 nr_cpu_ids:4 nr_node_ids:1

[    0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 13 pages/cpu @f6800000 s31040 r0 d22208 u1048576

[    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s31040 r0 d22208 u1048576 alloc=1*4194304

[    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 1 2 3 

[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 257331

[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/dbe57de4-11cd-4d0e-bb93-96da2737ada7 ro

[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)

[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)

[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)

[    0.000000] Initializing CPU#0

[    0.000000] allocated 4151296 bytes of page_cgroup

[    0.000000] please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups

[    0.000000] Initializing HighMem for node 0 (000377fe:0003f590)

[    0.000000] Memory: 1015296k/1037888k available (3571k kernel code, 22140k reserved, 1405k data, 516k init, 128584k highmem)

[    0.000000] virtual kernel memory layout:

[    0.000000]    fixmap  : 0xfff16000 - 0xfffff000  ( 932 kB)

[    0.000000]    pkmap  : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000  (4096 kB)

[    0.000000]    vmalloc : 0xf7ffe000 - 0xff7fe000  ( 120 MB)

[    0.000000]    lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf77fe000  ( 887 MB)

[    0.000000]      .init : 0xc05dd000 - 0xc065e000  ( 516 kB)

[    0.000000]      .data : 0xc047cf15 - 0xc05dc6c0  (1405 kB)

[    0.000000]      .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc047cf15  (3571 kB)

[    0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok.

[    0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=15, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1

[    0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.

[    0.000000]  Verbose stalled-CPUs detection is disabled.

[    5.835066] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810

[    5.921067] i915 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16

[    5.921075] i915 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64

[    5.925118] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0

[    5.926132] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.07

[    5.926248] iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH7 or ICH7R TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x0460)

[    5.926334] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)

[    5.940216] i915 0000:00:02.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X

[    5.940224] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).

[    5.940227] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.

[    5.940271] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:00:02.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem

[    5.956774] [drm] initialized overlay support

[    6.031814] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device

[    6.076114] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6

[    6.083762] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 180x56

[    6.090888] fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device

[    6.090891] drm: registered panic notifier

[    6.090996] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0

[    6.538801] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x2A12

[    6.538856] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp

[    6.564576] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain

[    6.786745] usb 1-6: reset high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd

[    6.953480] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'

[    6.953936] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::radio

[    6.953970] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::assoc

[    6.954010] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::quality

[    6.954038] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2800usb

[    7.601376] EXT4-fs (sda3): re-mounted. Opts: (null)

[    7.880850] EXT4-fs (sda4): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)

[    8.046863] Adding 265068k swap on /dev/sda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:265068k 

[  10.653930] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: link down

[  14.401289] wlan0: authenticate with 00:18:f8:68:30:20 (try 1)

[  14.402797] wlan0: authenticated

[  14.451335] wlan0: associate with 00:18:f8:68:30:20 (try 1)

[  14.453315] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:18:f8:68:30:20 (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=2)

[  14.453321] wlan0: associated

[  17.751666] EXT4-fs (sda3): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0

[  17.949818] EXT4-fs (sda4): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0

[  28.330209] fuse init (API version 7.17)

[  29.288514] NET: Registered protocol family 10

[  29.289839] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready

[  36.301623] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3

[  36.435589] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A

[  39.896701] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present