Bug 38400
| Summary: | Installation freezing on Toshiba laptop | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | lionel azikiwe <bionicdog> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||
| 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: | 2001-05-20 17:18:29 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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Description
lionel azikiwe
2001-04-30 16:17:23 UTC
Did you burn the cd's or get them in the boxed set? If you downloaded them, I would check the md5sums of the ISOs to make sure that nothing got corrupted during the download. Do these cd's work in any other machines? I burned the iso's from one of the mirror sites and i have been able to use them successfully on a desktop system but i need to deploy and test it on laptops. Just in case it has something to do with the Md5sums, how do i go about checking that out. Thanks If the isos are on a Linux box, run the 'md5sum' command...like 'md5sum whatever.iso'. It will take a long time, but you should see the checksum information after it is through. Also, there are some freeware Windows utilities to do this on a Windows box, but I don't have the URL's for them handy. Unfortuantely the iso's have been burnt to a disk already but i have a linux box that is running red hat 7.0. Can i mount the iso cd-rom to /mnt/cdrom/ and run the md5sum command like you specified above No, you can't really check the md5sum on the cd itself, you have to do it on the ISO image that you downloaded. When the machine hangs, can you go to VC3 (<Ctrl><Alt><F3>) and VC4 (<Ctrl><Alt><F4>) and see if you see any error messages? I will try reloading it again today and try to the key combinations to try to check the error messages and i will also try to look for the iso images in the downloaded form . Actually i found the iso , it is on a windows system,(seawolf-i386-disc1- 2.iso), how do i go about checking the md5sum on it ona windows system, i can't transfer it to my laptop since it might use up a whole lot of space There are some freeware Windows utilities for checking md5sums. I don't know how well they work, but they should work ok. Here's a URL for one of them called md5summer: http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10096-100-3728229.html?tag=st.dl.10001-103-1.lst-7-1.3728229 Ok i downloaded that program that you recommended and i used it to create a md5sum for the iso that i have seawolf-i386-disc1-2.iso and the MD5sum that i got is 596b1575773e88e066326f6741312a6f and then i went back to the mirror site that i downloaded it form download.sourceforge.net and retrieved the MD5sum that they had for seawolf-i386-disc1.iso and it was f27b912299572a542cd663b712444445. This is all i have for now, what do you think? did i do it correctly I also tried to re-install it again but it froze and i tried the key combinations you mentioned V3(<Ctrl><Alt><F3>) and VC4 (<Ctrl><Alt><F4>) but i couldn't get or see anything. In your last post, you said you used Md5Summer to check the md5sum of the "seawolf-i386-disc1-2.iso"...do you mean disk 1 or disk 2? I don't understand the "disk1-2.iso" part... Sorry about that i meant disk1 not disk2. The MD5sum was for disk1 Ok, your md5sums don't match. They should be identical. This means that something got scrambled when the iso came over the network, which means that there is no chance for the install to complete properly. Try redownloading and burn a new cd. Please reopen this bug if the problem persists after this. Thanks for your report. I FTPed into Ftp.redhat.com and downloading the Two iso's and burnt them to discs on friday and then tried to install them onto the laptop again and then the samething happened again (i.e freezing), i tried out the disc's on a desktop and then installation went fine and smooth with one single problem which led me to the conclusion that it had nothing to do with the disc's. My issue right now is how do i get red hat 7.1 onto the laptop, is it possible to do it via an online upgrade in which case the kernel will be upgraded to the latest version or should i re-compile the kernel to reflect new changes that will be beneficial to the laptop devices or is there any other way you think i should go about this whole issue. Try booting with 'linux ide=nodma'. Does that help? I tried feeding the argument you specified above to kernel at boot time but that didn't help as it still kept freezing at some point. Well, one way to get 7.1 on the system is to install 7.0 and then upgrade the RPMs by hand. Basically, put the 7.1 cd in the machine and go to the RPMs directory and start doing 'rpm -U *.rpm' for the packages you want to upgrade. After you upgrade the kernel package, though, *BE SURE* to go change your /etc/lilo.conf file to boot from the new kernel. Otherwise your system will be unbootable. Before you try that, though, try installing 7.1 one more time and say 'linux nofb text ide=nodma' and see if that works. Other than that, I'm pretty much out of ideas. i will try the new argument linux nofb text ide=nodma later on and update you as to the outcome and if all else fails i will then try to upgrade through rpm upgradeability. Ok. Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you have more information. |