Bug 55370
| Summary: | RH 7.1 's Anaconda Installation Error on Dell I8100 Notebook | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Bhay <bhay> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-10-30 15:22:23 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Try booting with 'linux ide=nodma'. This has worked for a number of other Dell notebook owners. This report is a duplicate of bug #52600. Thanks for your report. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 52600 *** |
Description of Problem: I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 8100 Notebook with pre-installed winME. I also bought a Linux minibook magazine, it was accompanied with 4 CD Linux Installation CDs with RedHat Version 7.1 And Mandrake 8.0 .. Before trying to install it into my Laptop, i tested the Linux Installation CDs by intstalling it into an Old Pentium 1 100Mgz 1GB running Windows 98SE and things went smoothly ( i was able choose booting from either Linux or Win98) .. assuming things will work the same with Notebooks , Notebook Configuration : Dell Inspiron 8100 1GHz 256 KB Memory 32MB DDR 4AP NIDIA GEFORCE Video Adapter 20 GB Hard Disk 3com Network Card And Modem Internal, Combo DVD CDRW Optical Drive , Combo I started my installation proces by partitioning the Disk using non- destructive FIPS utility that comes with the CDs. and subsequently reformatted and divide the Second partiotioned disk into pieces for RedHat allocation Using DISK DRUID.. the ff partitioned was the End Result /dev/hda1 6000MB Windows FAT32 /dev/hda2 / 1800MB Linux Native /dev/hda3 /usr 2000MB Linux Native /dev/hda4 /home 2000MB Linux Native /dev/hda7 400MB Linux Swap Linux root was mounted below the 1024 Cylinder as advised and the remains of 20GB was unallocated .. going through the installation process.. and choosing the minimum package installation , The FF error was encountered during the installation process within install Option = Laptop ========================================================================== Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 520, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1126, in run rc = apply (step[1](), args) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 551, in __call__ if todo.doInstall (): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1765, in doInstall self.fstab.turnOnSwap(self.instPath) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 537, in turnOnSwap isys.swapon (file) File "/mnt/redhat/test/qa0408.4/i386/RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/isys .py", line 163, in swapon return _isys.swapon (path) SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument') Local variables in innermost frame: path: /tmp/swap/hda7 =========================================================================== I tried installing it through options like WORKSTATION, SERVER, CUSTOM but the same end result happens.. the Installation process is aborted with the same error messages as above ... Am newbie to Linux and i would appreciate if someone can give me hand on this .. Dennis