Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 119703
Installation of Fedora Core 1 hangs when see message "running sbin/loader"
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:39 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: Installation of Fedora Core 1 hangs when receive message "running sbin/loader" during install Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Boot from Fedora core 1 CD built from ISO Actual Results: Installation starts and hangs at running sbin/loader Expected Results: Continues with installation of Fedora Additional info: I have read the bugs for this problem with earlier versions of RedHat and they often say to start Linux install with Linux nousb (or sometimes nofb or noacpi). None of these boot options get the install past the attempt to load sbin/loader. I have successfully installed on the machine that experiences the Fedora install problem, Debian Kernel 2.2 from a minimal ISO image. The Debian install process downloads further required packages from the internet during installation. Debian boots correctly after the install completes. Processor Inel P4 2.8GHz Memory 512Mbyte
Does booting with 'linux nopcmcia' help? Are your keyboard LEDs flashing at this point?
booting with 'linux nopcmcia' This gets past the "Sbin/loader hang" Currently the machine is installing the packages from FC1 Disk1. I have chosen "personal" installation. I will add posting upon final outcome (success or failure) of FC1 install attempt.
Install attempt 1 failed at 1..2..3..4..5 X server started successfully Install exited abnoramlly sending termination signals etc .. No other useful error messages
Did you verify your media using the internal mediacheck? (see http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/mediacheck.html)
I created FC2 1.9.1 CDs, performed media check and installed from those new CDs. FC2 install successful. Bug report Closed.