Bug 76064

Summary:	Installer hangs when disk formatting is started
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <dc>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	8.0	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Need Real Name 2002-10-16 13:50:47 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461)

Description of problem:
When running the installer the system reaches hard disk setup without problems. 
After marking the "auto-allocate" option, the system proceeds to formatting, 
and after a moment or two it hangs. I tried it both with "auto-allocate" and 
manual with the same result. To begin with I thought the problem was caused by 
a bad disk, but as the same thing happened with 3 (2 IBMs, 1 Maxtor) different 
disks, I guessed it had to be something else. After trying many things that 
didn't help, I tried to setup my BIOS to not use auto-detect-mode, but enter 
the bios and lock the hard disk option to my hard disk.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set your BIOS to autodetect all ide disks
2. Start installer by booting from CD
3. When reaching disk handling choose auto-allocate and hit enter
4. Wait 2 secs
	

Actual Results:  The system froze, and didn't return (gave up after 15 minutes)

Expected Results:  The installer should have formatted my disk

Additional info:

My system consists of a Asus motheboard A7V266-E which incorporates the VIA 
KT266A chipset. 
My BIOS version was #11.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-10-16 22:01:19 UTC

Can you switch to tty4 with ctrl-alt-f4 and see if there are any errors there? 
Additionally, do you get different results in text mode?

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2004-10-05 02:58:23 UTC

Closing due to lack of activity.  Please reopen if you see this on
current releases and have further information to add to the report.