Bug 55896

Summary: Installer crashed after formatting partitions
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Tryg Anderson <ripchen>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 7.2   
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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data written to floppy by install program none

Description Tryg Anderson 2001-11-08 14:35:22 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)

Description of problem:
Installing on Compaq Deskpro - install crashes right after formatting of 
partitios is complete

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot 7.2 install from CD
2.select server install and manual partition
3.select web and samba server

	

Actual Results:  install crashes after formating of partitions

Expected Results:  install should have run to completion

Additional info:

I will attach the crash data written to floppy
Comment 1 Tryg Anderson 2001-11-08 14:36:24 UTC 
Created attachment 36861 [details]
data written to floppy by install program
Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-11-08 16:55:30 UTC 
The kernel is having trouble communicating with the hard drive.  

<4>hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
<4>hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
<4>hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
<4>hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
<4>hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
<4>hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
<4>hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
<4>hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }

Try booting with 'linux ide=nodma'.  Does that help?
Comment 3 Tryg Anderson 2001-11-08 18:04:50 UTC 
yes, the install was able to continue and finished
Comment 4 Brent Fox 2001-11-08 21:17:01 UTC 
Ok.