Bug 99441
| Summary: | RH 8 & 9 Installers crashes before media check | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Erik <arconwan> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | pfrields |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | athlon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-08-25 16:11:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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I made a typo earlier. My laptop has a radion IGP 320M. Its still on board/shared video. Try turning off USB Legacy Emulation in your laptop BIOS if possible. Well, now the crashing has stopped, but I still have a problem with my Compaq, which has a legacy USB keyboard. I found a temporary to restart my computer & settings with, but I need a way to use this legacy USB keyboard. Can I use it after the install? Red Hat 9 has been installed on the Compaq, though it is not running very well (lots of programs crashing, lots of display errors and lots of lagging with a black screen). Also, it has rejected the old keyboard, so unless you tell me a way I can use it, I'm going to have remove red hat. Also, my laptop has an incompatible video chipset, so I can't run X on it, and I sure don't want to run text linux. I know my second problem is really unrelated to my original problem, but I still have a valid USB problem on this Compaq. Mandrake linux 9.1 had no problem with the Compaq keyboard (It just couldn't do much), but I don't see why red hat can't use my keyboard. This sounds like a kernel driver issue. Its been 4 months since someone has said something to me. I don't know if you're busy, or if my problem is unimportant, or whatever. I'd be really happy if you would at least tell me if you will or won't fix my problem someday. Not that I would know, but is USB 1.0 that hard to support? Are you no running the latest errata kernel ? I'm on kernel speciallist. I used whatever kernel came with the Red Hat 8 and 9 that I downloaded from isolinux.com. However, I cannot install RH8 or 9 with Legacy USB support, and if I turn it on after install I still can't use my keyboard, not to mention all sorts of weird side-effects occure. For that matter, it doesn't run very well with Legacy USB off either, though not as bad. I'm a half-newbie who's found severel effective ways to ruin an install but none to fix it. Thanks for finally replying; I thought I'd be forgotten about or ignored. *Not a kernel speciallyist (typo) sorry up2date -fu will upgrade to the latest kernel. Of course, this does mean you'll need to either type this in (using a different keyboard), or ssh into the box. You will need an updated kernel than the one that shipped with RHL9 to work correctly with a radeon IGP chipset. An alternative if none of this works is to install Fedora Core 1. This definitly works out of the box on this chipset, as I have a similar laptop myself. About my laptop, I had to wipe it due to a crashed partition operation (by Partition Commander 8.1) and am now too scared to put linux back on. As for my Compaq, its having trouble booting right now because my master boot record is damaged (including the linux boot loader) and I don't know how to fix any of it. I tried removing everything linux, but I still need third-party software just to boot. If I ever fix this, then I'll try this up2date -fu. However, whenever I've tried updating RH over the net, everything but updatedrake (for Mandrake 9.1) has crashed in the past, though I've never done up2date -fu. Here's the new deal: Installed some cheap bootloader from CD, re-installed Redhat 9, signed up for RHN, ran up2date (today, 6-11-04), ran new kernal, still didn't support keyboard. It now says when loading 'USB keyboard: [OK]' but later says the same old 'USB-control: usb-bulk-message/timedout' or something like that. I can't remember exactly. Sorry I took so long (darn collage taking all my time). Now I downloaded Fedora Core 2 and used it as an upgrade. It upgraded the kernel to yet another new version, and this one supports the keyboard. All the problems the upgrade created are unrelated to the orignial problem so this bug is solved. Aside from the loss of firewire support, the 8 error messages that Gnome gives me every boot, and minor Samba issues that are probably my fault, its working quite well. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Opera 7.11 [en] Description of problem: Both red hat 8 and 9 failed to install on a 1.1Ghz athlon Compaq PC and 1.8Ghz Athlon XP-M HP laptop. Both crashed just when asking if it should perform the media check; not even control-alt-delete affected them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start computer with installer cd insterted 2.Tell installer to install 3.Wait for loading Actual Results: Both of my sytems become completely non-responsive, only the power button ends the freeze. The system is asking if I want to perform the media check, but it doesn't respond to the arrows, tab, enter or any other keys. I let the PC sit for over half an hour to see if it was a loading problem. Expected Results: The install should continue normally, allow the media check, and otherwise install the program. Additional info: Originally, I was trying to dual boot with win2K on the PC and winXP on the laptop, and that those windows were already installed. I have created extra partitions for linux. I used the same red hat CDs on a pentium pro system with no errors. I tried putting the pentium pro system's hard drive in my athlon PC and it still didn't work. I tried putting the CD in my athlon PC's DVD-rom and CD-RW, but neither worked. I tried booting from the install floppy with no success. I tried text install, expert install, installing with various combinations of options, installing with no options, and it always hangs just after loading something like ochi386 drivers (I can't really read it in the time it shows it). There are no error messages, no error dumps, no new files on the hard drive. I had the pentium system run the media check on all the CDs and It said they were good. I don't know everything about my hardware, but here's what I know: System 1: Compaq Presario 7000 series, Athlon based PC (Crashed) Athlon T-Bird running at 1.1Ghz (manufacturer setting) 512MB of SDRam on 3 sticks (128+128+256), PC100 80GB Maxor hard drive with 2 partions, a Win2K using NTFS and an empty fat32 8X-DVD Compaq ROM drive (might be 24X with CDs), Also LG 12x4x32 CD-RW TNT2 Compaq edition AGP video card, 32MB SDram. System 2: HP Pavilion ze4300 series, Athlon based notebook (Crashed) Athlon XP-M 2400+ running at 1.8Ghz (manufacturer setting) 512MB of DDR Ram on 1 stick, PC2100 24x CD-ROM 60GB Toshiba hard drive with 2 partitions, a WinXP using NTFS and an empty fat32 Onboard ATI (not radion) based chipset, 64MB shared ram. System 3: IBM Aptiva Model 2161-C9F Pentium based PC (Didn't crash) Intel Pentium Pro 200MHz (manufacturer setting) 64MB of Ram on 2 sticks (32+32), PC66 16x IBM CD-Rom 3GB IBM hard drive, started with 1 partition, with Win98 using fat32, later partioned by red hat 8, but unaltered when upgraded by red hat 9. ATI Rage II onboard chipset, 2MB SDRam It might be that I need to install with some options I'm not aware of, but it shouldn't crash either way. I don't think I know the syntax quite right for the options, so please be very specific in your answer if that's the case.