Bug 74126

Summary:	installation problem
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Aditya Kilaru <kilaru_ad>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	high
Version:	7.3
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Description Aditya Kilaru 2002-09-16 17:05:09 UTC

Description of Problem:
i am trying to install linux 7.3 on my machine. i put linux cd in cdrom drive i 
turned on the pc. its booting from cd and it detecting all(cd and hard disk) 
but its hanging up when its checking the partition on hard disk.. 

its hanging up like this

Partition check:
hda: 

thats it cursor blinking

before that i boot the system with win98 boot disk and i formated the hard disk 
with format c: and i erased mbr using fdisk /mbr.

i am going to install only linux on this system.(no dual os)

thank u for ur kind response

aditya


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Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-09-16 17:11:08 UTC

Have you used the hard drive for an installation before?

It appears the boot kernel is hanging trying to read the partition table of the
drive.

Comment 2 Aditya Kilaru 2002-09-16 19:25:31 UTC

thank you for your immediate reply

yes i installed linux on the same hard disk before..
because of some problems i am re-installing the software. i couldn't do that. i 
erased all partition information on the hard drive. now my hard disk has only 
one primary dos partition and nothing on that hard disk

thank u for ur immediate reply

aditya kilaru

Comment 3 Aditya Kilaru 2002-09-24 15:02:52 UTC

could u please clarify my doubt.. i put it in follow up message

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2002-10-02 19:27:21 UTC

It is hanging at the time the kernel is booting, reassigning to the kernel
component.

Comment 5 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:39:55 UTC

Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/