On a Dell Inspiron 7500 CPU 500MHz Mem: 64MB The CD installation Hangs on the Language selection screen only for Text Install; however it works for GUI install. I can't go to other virtual console to look at outputs. The NFS installation works fine. here is the lspci -v of the system 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 128 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64 I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff Memory behind bridge: fc000000-fdffffff 00:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 009e Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11 Memory at <ignored> (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Bus: primary=00, secondary=20, subordinate=22, sec-latency=32 I/O window 0: 00000000-00000003 I/O window 1: 00000000-00000003 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 00:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 009e Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11 Memory at <ignored> (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Bus: primary=00, secondary=23, subordinate=25, sec-latency=32 I/O window 0: 00000000-00000003 I/O window 1: 00000000-00000003 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog- if 80 [Master]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 I/O ports at 1050 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog- if 00 [UHCI]) Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5 I/O ports at 1060 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03) Flags: medium devsel 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10) Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 009e Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 I/O ports at 1400 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 009e Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11 Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) I/O ports at 2000 Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0 Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Gold-release
I cannot reproduce this on my Inspiron 7500
Have you tried this on any other Inspirons? Tried different CDROM drives? If not, I'm going to call this a hardware problem and close it as WORKSFORME.
Text based install is now functioning normally in RC2.
Closing per Mick