Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 175474
Installer hangs at /sbin/loader
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:23:38 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: had to boot "linux ide=nodma" to get installer to run on a dell latitude CPiX. Fedora help page (http://www.fedorafaq.org/#otherinstall) asked me to file a bug. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fc4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Wipe disk 2. boot from core 4 iso image disc 1 3. Actual Results: Install process hangs at /sbin/loader Expected Results: installation continues... Additional info: Dell latitude CPiA PII 366 / 128 MB ram After booting "linux ide=nodma", installation proceeded normally. Options presented by early installation "options" do not include this option, I googled it. Product would be enhanced by including this option availability at the initial boot screen.
Does the update kernel boot ok without ide=nodma ?
no, the entire process hangs if ide=nodma is not specified
can you try the test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC4 and make sure that the 'quiet' argument isn't on the boot command line. Whats the last few lines that it prints before the hang ?
This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs. A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. Thank you.
Closing per previous comment.