From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: Trying to install on an Cyrix 6x86 box (as below). Everything is fine until after package selection, at which point the installer bails out and the machine halts. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot CD 2. Perform media check - passes 3. Language Selection - English (English) 4. Keyboard Configuration - United Kingdom 5. Mouse Configuration - 3 button serial on /dev/ttyS0 6. Monitor Configuration - Generic CRT, 1280x1024 7. Upgrade/Install - Option to upgrade RH 7.3 on /dev/hda1 presented, but selected new install instead 8. Installation Type - Server 9. Manually Partition with Disc Druid 10. Delete existing partitions and recreate as: a. swap, 133MB b. mount=/, ext3, 100MB+fill to available size, force primary (disc druid sets /dev/hda1 to / of size 4871MB and /dev/hda2 to swap of size 133MB) 11. Boad Loader Config - Leave as default, GRUB booting Fedora Core 12. Network Configuration - DHCP on eth0 with manual hostname set 13. Firewall Configuration - no firewall (warnings acknowledged) 14. Additional Language Support - Add English (Great Britain) and set that as default. English (USA) also left selected. 15. Timezone - Set to Europe/London 16. Root Password Set 17. Package Selection - Packages selected left as default <installer halts> Actual Results: Thrown out of graphical installation back to text console with the following: install exited abnormally sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap... unmounting filesystems... /mnt/runtime done disabling /dev/loop0 /proc/bus/usb done /proc done /dev/pts done /tmp/ramfs done /mnt/source done you may safely reboot your system Expected Results: Magic. Additional info: IBM/Cyrix 6x86L-PR200+ 128MB RAM S3 ViRGE (generic) Fujitsu MPA3052AT HDD (~4-5GB) IDE CDROM
Can you boot with 'linux allowcddma' and see if it helps?
No joy - doesn't seem to make any difference. I tried a network install as well (with the initial boot from CD) and that has exactly the same problem.
Could you try running memtest86? This sounds really bizarre (haven't heard anything like it and it's not like this is abnormal hardware or anything like that).
Created attachment 96854 [details] dmesg output from RedHat 9.0 on same machine I left memtest86 running overnight - it passed 578 runs with 0 fails. I've attached the output of dmesg from the same machine, but when it is booted into RedHat 9.0 (which installed fine). There is a second (160GB) drive in the machine (/dev/hdc) which is disabled in the BIOS. I recently added this and it works fine in RedHat 9, but I have install problems whether this drive is in the machine or not. /dev/hdd is the CDROM - it's just a generic IDE one.
Should be better with newer releases.