Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 12188
Unconfigured hw: X, cd-rw, ls120, aha1505, 3c509
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:27:15 EDT
==== cpu: pentiumIII 450 mem: 128M bios: Award v4.51PG mb: Asus P2 (rev1011.A) chipset: i440ZX 10/21/99-i440ZX-P2-99 video: Trident 3D Blade 8M mouse: ps2, 2 buttons keyboard: US monitor: Olidata MR1502 (see below) nic: 3c509 IDE devices: hda: IDE disk hdb: none hdc: LS-120 (_not_ set as boot device in BIOS) hdd: IDE CD-RW (PHILIPS PCRW804) SCSI devices: scsi controller: Adaptec AHA1505 scsi tape: TANDBERG TDC 3800 My language: Italian Olidata (www.olidata.it) is the biggest Italian "system integrator" or whatever you call who buys parts in Asia and sells pc's. Don't know the original maker of the monitor, Olidata re-brands them. It's made in china... ==== ************ GUI install: 70 sec of /sbin/loader 130 sec of BLACK screen Then video is trembling, can select language, becomes unusable when selecting keyboard. Aborted. I installed 6.1 ok with GUI on the same system. *********** Text Install (not expert, I deliberately chose the normal install as a new user would do): ==== X My video card was detected correctly (Trident 3DBlade generic), the server chosen by the installer was Xfree86 instead of SVGA. After the 1st boot: - startx does not work "unable to open /var/log/XFree86.0.log" - X -configure, ok, startx, X starts, screen trembling, unusable. - Xconfigurator (some warnings about "Warning CHIPSET specification missing for Card database...."), startx, "server does't exist can't continue". X is a link to Xfree86. - I installed the SVGA X Server and then could start X and gnome. Still some problems (trembling, icons with just the text labels, "gmc" segfault). ==== CD-RW The IDE CD-RW was detected as a simple CDROM, moreover the ide-cd is not a module so you need to edit lilo.conf (something I prefer not to do unless I have no other choice), instead of just putting the config info ("option ide-cd ignore hdd") in /etc/modules.conf as I'm used to do. When I did an expert install I could specify the lilo options. However, it would be better to have ide-cd as a module. ==== AHA1505 The aha1505 is not detected; manually edited /etc/modules.conf and then worked. When I did the expert install I could specify options and have it recognized. ==== 3c509: 3c509 not detected, manually edited /etc/modules.cond and then worked. I was not asked for ip address during install, just the hostname. I chose "workstation" install. When I did the expert install I could specify options and have it recognized, and I was asked the ipaddr data. ==== LS-120: No entry for it was added in /etc/fstab. That would help new linux users who use formatted ls120. For the ones who use the ls120 as a backup media, just like a tape, and use cpio/tar to write to it, the message hdd: unknown partition table when you use it, is annoying :-) ==== /etc/hosts /etc/hosts is messed-up with hostname on the same line of 127.0.0.1
As to the CD-RW, all current releases of Red Hat Linux currently have IDE cdrom support compiled in instead of modular. It would, though, make it easier to get CD-Rs working if it were modular. The aha1505 and 3c509 cards are not detected or asked about by default in the text installer as they are ISA cards. There isn't a good way to probe for ISA cards, and if you don't select expert mode, then the installer doesn't try to ask about ISA hardware. My understanding of why the hostname is on the same line in /etc/hosts is so that network services such as sendmail and apache don't hang on startup if the network interface does not come up on boot
katzj answered most of these issues (thanks). ls120: We will be added /etc/fstab support for it soon. cd-r/w: I will bring this issue up internally and find a resolution.
>My understanding of why the hostname is on the same line in /etc/hosts is so >that network services such as sendmail and apache don't hang on startup if the >network interface does not come up on boot I thought "localhost.localdomain" was used for that reason. Is it considered normal to have a network card configured properly and not to have its ip address in /etc/hosts? The install programm asked for an hostname, and I gave it a fqdn. I made a text/expert install (workstation) This is my /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain This is my /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 i5.mydomain.dom i5 localhost.localdomain localhost I think it should be: /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=i5.mydomain.dom /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost my.ip.address i5.mydomain.dom i5
you can also try "linux isa" at the syslinux prompt to bring up a dialog for configuring isa devices ... also, beta2 should have better support for the ls120; please let us know if there are any problems with it ... thanks for your report!
I'm opening more specific bug for beta2 (for ls120 and cdrw), since I've used a too generic summary for this bug and some of the issues have been resolved.
User split out bug report into several simpler ones, as this one is too complex.