From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916 Description of problem: I'm trying to upgrade a RH 7.1 machine to fedora. After detecting the mouse/keyboard/display, anaconda stops with "install exited abnormally". The install is supposed to be via ftp. lspci reads 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:08.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec 7892B (rev 02) 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 08) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04) The machine is a dual-PIII-500, Chipset 440BX. It has software raid running. I've tried a variety of options like noapic, apic, but none worked yet. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-9.2-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from floppy 2. Choose language and install medium, load NIC and SCSI drivers 3. Wait Actual Results: install exited abnormally after detecting video, keyboard and mouse Expected Results: installer should start Additional info:
Can you verify your media following the instructions at http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/mediacheck.html?
Yes, I can. I used the floppy on other computers without problems, too. These were alle non-SMP-machines.
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