Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 16012
unable to do a hard drive install with RC1
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:57 EDT
I am unable to do a hard drive install with RC1. This is on a Dell Inspiron 7000 machine with a Celeron 466 and 128 MB of RAM. I have tried booting using both boot.img and pcmcia.img. I am able to select the language, keyboard type, installation type, and partition/directory holding the installation files. All of this works without a problem. However, after I select the partition/directory holding Red Hat and messages flash by that ramdisk images are being loaded and anaconda is starting I then get a screen welcoming to Red Hat Linux. I am unable to proceed on this screen--the machine is completely locked up and I have to do a hard reset to regain control of the system. NOTE: Because my DSL connection is down I am having problems getting e- mail. Please send all e-mail regarding this issue to crunge@tangram.com in the meantime. Thanks, Chris
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Gold-release
This really sounds like a particular problem to your hardware - we have routinely done hard drive installs as part of our testing routine and haven't experienced any hard lockups. Do the FTP or CDROM methods fail similarly?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15386 ***
I realize this was closed as a duplicate of another bug. I have found some additional info: 1st: the machine is an Inspiron 7500 ; I apologize for the typo 2nd: the problem only appears to happen when the machine is plugged into the docking station 3rd: I discovered the same problem with 6.2 when using the updated boot disks 4th: it appears to be a timing problem of some sort; once I selected the keyboard immediately and was taken to the next screen where the lock occurred again 5th: it doesn't appear to be a hard drive install-related problem; I had the problem when doing a text-install from a 6.2 CD as well I chose to reopen this as I'm not sure it is the same problem as the other bug. If it is, please feel free to close it again.
If you suspend and unsuspend the machine when it is in locked state, can you proceed?
Closing due to inactivity.