Bug 123530
| Summary: | Install hangs on /sbin/loader when installing on a Dell Inspiron 3200 Laptop | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Adam Browning <aadain2001> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2 | CC: | familyb, tim.chilton |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-06-21 23:05:13 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Does booting with 'linux nousb' help? *** Bug 112742 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Bad dup, sorry. Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you have further information to add to this bug report. Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you have further information to add to this bug report. Can you re-open this bug. I'm having the very same problem on similar hardware. The problem that I'm seeing (using ALT-F4) is that it fails to mount the CD-ROM drive. The error message indicates that the IRQ is lost. It loops this way infinitely. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 3000 200MHz CPU, 144 MB RAM, 3.2GB HD, IDE CD-ROM I noticed in the system messages that it looks to load the IDE-CDROM module but FAILS to find it. I have same problem on Dell Inspiron 3200. Please reopen. I have tried noprobe, nofb, nopcmcia, nousb, mem=144M (yes thats how much mem I have) , and text. Spent a lot of time looking at this today and have a solution. Machine is an old Dell Latitude CP P233 MMX (for a firewall project), latest Dell BIOS A16 Install of RH9 works fine, Fedora FC3 hangs on sbin/loader as detailed above. When problem exists, tty3 (or 4?) shows "dma interrupt recovery" and "lost interrupt" messages on /dev/hdc which is the CDROM (a Toshiba XM1902B) Install will work if you install with "linux ide=nodma" After the install completes you can change the /etc/grub.conf to take out the ide=nodma and add a hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc to /etc/rc.local so that the CDROM does not use DMA but the hard disk does (for speed on the HDD) Suggestion : If the installer starts getting lost interrupts, why can't it revert from DMA mode to PIO mode, that way it won't crash. Dont forget that many ex-Windows PC's had problems with DMA support on IDE too which is why most Win installs didn't use DMA mode unless you forced it. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: When running the install program on a Dell Inspiron 3200 laptop, it gets to the point where it says "running /sbin/loader". It seems the hang, then the CD starts spining and does not stop and nothing happens. This laptop was able to install FC1 before. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot laptop with FC2 CD 1 2. Select either graphical or text install 3. CD spins up at /sbin/loader and continues to spin until hard reset Actual Results: The laptop stalls at the /sbin/loader line, the CD continues to spin, and nothing happens. Laptop must be reset. Expected Results: Typical graphical installer Additional info: This laptop has a PII 266MHz CPU, 96MB of RAM, and a 6GB hard drive.