Description of problem: When installing the RH 9.0 on the new HD (Seagate - 160 Gb), I have noticed the following. After selecting (set by default) Graphical install and press Enter, Anaconda will start detecting all the devices and drivers. At some point of time if Anaconda fails to detect specific device it will just hang. It won't respond to Ctrl + Alt + F1 or Ctrl + Alt + F2 or Ctrl + Alt + F3 or Ctrl + Alt + F4 as well as to Ctrl + Alt + Del. Attempt to restart - will bring the same result - Anaconda will hang. Here is an TEXT of message displayed on the screen: "hdb: 312581808: clusters (160042 Mb) w/8192Kib Cache, CHS = 19457/255/63, UDMA (100) hdc: ATAPI 48x CD-ROM drive, 128 Kb cache Uniform CD-Rom driver revision: 3.12 hdd: ATAPI 40xCDROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192Kb Cache IDE-floppy driver 0.99.newide Partition Check: hda: hda1 hda2 hdb: unknown partition table IDE-Floppy driver 0.99.newide USB.C: Registered new driver usbdevfs USB.C: Registered new driver hub ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: PCI device 8086:24cd ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: irq 9, pci mem e080d000 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: enabled 64 bit PCI DMA PCI: 00:1d.7: PCI cache line size set icorrectly (0 bytes) by BIOS / FW PCI: 00:1d.7: PCI cache line size corrected to 16 ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-JAN-22 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 6 ports detected usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275$ time 09:35:56 Feb-27-2003 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 3 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RH 9.0; Linux 2.4.20 kernel How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Setup CD Rom to be Boot # 1 drive (BIOS) 2.Insert CD # 1 for RD installation (I used RH 9.0; Linux 2.4.20 kernel) 3.Restart the computer. 4.Graphical install option is selected by default and user has an option to select <Enter>, press Enter. Actual results: 1) Observe the message received (I mentioned this message in the "Description" section of this bug). 2) Wait and observe that Installation process is hanged. Note: One can even try Ctrl + Alt + F1 or Ctrl + Alt + F2 or Ctrl + Alt + F3 or Ctrl + Alt + F4 as well as to Ctrl + Alt + Del and find that there is no response from the system. Expected results: I'm new to Linux install and I'm very basic Linux user. However I'd expect that if some of the Hardware / drivers are not detected properly by Linux, it shall skip them for later and continue with installation. If it is an expected approach, I would strongly recommend changing it and modify this bug into Enhancement. Additional info: Well I actually found work around. Since I have analyzed a bit of situation, I thought I'll remove couple of my devices that perhaps causing RH Linux to hang during the install stage. So I disconnected my web camera and second mouse (kids mouse - used by my son to play games:). Restarted my PC and it started working with no issues... My PC information: ================== Dell PC with Windows XP SP 2 on 1st HD (WD) - 30 Gb RAM 512 Mb Second HD (purchased specifically for Linux install 160 Gb) - set as slave.
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