Bug 75660
| Summary: | Installer kernel hangs | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Bill Carlson <bcarlson> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | photek |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:40:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Bill Carlson
2002-10-10 20:00:56 UTC
I can confirm this problem on the same hardware. No problems also with 7.3 On one boot attempt (w/ linux noprobe) I also got a repetative APIC error on CPU0: 00(04) Correction: my motherboard is Tyan S1686S (same as S1686D for dual PII, but has only one CPU slot). Tried with both BIOS ver 2.0 and 2.08. When trying norpobe or noapic when booting from CD I sometimes get a spontaneous reboot at the same spot in kernel init. This is definitely a problem with the installer kernel only. I pulled the old trick of installing RH 8.0 on another machine, than transferring the hard drive to the problem machine. Boots, no problem. I had the same problem with a dual Intel PIII 1GHz setup (Asus CUV4X-D) motherboard. I started the install with 'linux noapic' and it went smoothly from there. This particular problem has been documented in a SuSe knowledgebase <a href="http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/jkoeke_cuv4x.html">here</a>. I forgot to add that the RH7.3 install kernel, and the RH7.3 fresh install kernel both work without problems. The RH8.0 install kernel and the RH8.0 fresh install kernel both fail. The noapic option is required in order to get it to work. I don't have to disable MP1.4 support, though I'm not sure if the problem manifests itself reliably once noapic is used. I have the same problem with locking up when installing though mine stops after message "ESR value before enabling vector: 00000002". However my MBoard is not SMP, just single CPU. It is a PCChips M825LMR with Duron 1.3Ghz. I made a boot floppy and switched the kernel for the one from RH7.3 and the floppy booted, ran mediacheck -ok and MD5 sums came out ok so its not the cd, but the floppy method locked up while partitioning with some debug messages unrelated to boot kernel. NB. The same machine installs RH7.3 with no trouble at all. The RH8.0 installer also hangs on my system after the message "ESR value before enabling vector: 00000002". (I can install RH7.3 with no problems, though.) I have tried installing with 'linux noapic' with no success. My motherboard is an ECS K7VMM (KM266 NB and VT8233 SB) with an Athlon XP 1800+. I think this is the same bug as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76542 and it seems that someone has made a script to create a new ISO using a recompiled kernel. Im not sure if its complete yet but he says it will be soon. I've used the script proposed at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76542 to build a new boot floppy (I've just commented out the bits for building the whole CD1 as I didn't have room on the haddrive) with APIC stuff in the kernel disabled, and I was able to install, and I am now running 8.0. 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/ |