Bug 25609

Summary:	Installer hangs at /sbin/loader under VMWare
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Bill Bradford <mrbill>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	7.1	CC:	mrbill
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2001-02-08 21:15:52 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Bill Bradford 2001-02-02 02:13:53 UTC

Running VMWare under Windows 2000, with virtual machine as follows:
64mb RAM, 2G HD, no floppy, CD-ROM assigned to cd-rom drive,
running in a window on the desktop.

Boots off CD fine, boots kernel, gets to /sbin/loader stage,
freezes solid (doesent continue).  I let it run for about
5 minutes (even tho this is a 700Mhz Athlon box) and no change.

Comment 1 Michael K. Johnson 2001-02-08 21:15:47 UTC

Have you brought this up with vmware technical support?

Comment 2 Alan Cox 2001-05-28 17:02:24 UTC

No info provided since February. Assuming vmware folks resolved it

Comment 3 Bill Bradford 2001-05-28 17:53:07 UTC

This was a bug that was filed against a beta version; at the time I was
told "VMWare is not a supported platform".  No longer an issue.