Bug 86466
Summary: | anaconda fails to initialize during install | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Michael Soulier <msoulier> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 8.0 | ||
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: | 2003-04-07 18:54:26 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Michael Soulier
2003-03-23 06:11:50 UTC
How much RAM and swap does the system have configured? msoulier@poohbear:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 159516 155056 4460 0 35080 44520 -/+ buffers/cache: 75456 84060 Swap: 489908 57116 432792 Mind you, this was a brand-new install, so the swap isn't important here, is it? If you have less than 192MB of RAM its important even when doing a fresh install that RAM+swap >= 256MB. Was that the case with your install attempts? > If you have less than 192MB of RAM its important even when doing a fresh install > that RAM+swap >= 256MB. I'm intrigued to know why swap is important for the installer, when no assumptions about the platform can be made, since the disk could be brand new and not even partitioned yet. Are you saying the anaconda will use the native swap, and then stop using it for disk druid, and then start using it again? > Was that the case with your install attempts? No. Above you will see that the system had 192M of RAM, and 500M of swap. It was a Debian install at the time we rebooted it and tried to install both RedHat 7.3 and 8.0. We got the error in both cases. No if its happening before you get to the option of partitioning then we have not turned any swap on yet. However 192M of RAM should be adequate. Does it fail before the 'Running anaconda....' message is printed out? > Does it fail before the 'Running anaconda....' message is printed out?
Upon booting the CD, the kernel boots, /sbin/loader runs, and the blue screen
with "Welcome to RedHat Linux" comes up.
It then sits there, apparently doing nothing, for several (read: 20+) minutes.
There is some harddrive activity.
Aha. The third virtual terminal shows "modules to insert ide-cd"
The fourth terminal shows endless looping on the part of the ide controller for
the CD.
"<4>Error -3 while decompressing!"
"<4>hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }"
"<4>ATAPI reset complete"
"<4>hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }"
These are the same CDs that I used to install my current RedHat 8.0 system, and
I've used the 7.3 CDs before too. They're from the same burner that made the
Debian CDs that we installed on that box. Odd.
You certainly have a case of CD media and your CD drive not liking each other. CDs can be frustrating let me tell you... I'd try a different CD drive to see if that helps. |