From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: As it stands right now. x86_64 fails it hangs during the full installation. I can install x86 RHEL4 U3 on the system. It doesn't matter if I do a X based install or a text base install. The system will hang while either formatting the drive or while installing the packages. I have also run memtest. It worked. I have spoken to John Linville. He believed that a potential fix was added to 2.6.9-22.25.EL: linux-2.6.9-x8664-32-bit-hang.patch. That did not solve the issue. I have tested with the beta kernel 2.6.9-24.EL. The system still hung on a full install. Before the system hung I was able to goto a differnet terminal and echo lspci and lspci -n to the console. I will attach a log file to the BZ. I have tried both PXE install and CD installations. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-24.EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to do a "everything" install on a HT-2000 system. Actual Results: Ssytem will hang at randomw times during the install. I have seen it hang while formatting, Also during installing packages. No specific package it changes every time I try. I have also tried changing from using IDE to SATA as a installation drive. Expected Results: We should install properly. Additional info:
Created attachment 122010 [details] Console output of boot kernel during installation also lspci and lspci -n
I have back-ported the latest serverworks driver from upstream in the test kernels here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel4/ If you can get at least a minimal installation, then perhaps you can try running these kernels for some time. Adding-in some disk stress testing would probably be good too (presuming it makes it that far).
After updating the bios the install work as expected. It was not a kernel bug.