Bug 17755 – hangs at beginning of install on Dell laptop

Bug 17755 - hangs at beginning of install on Dell laptop

Summary:	hangs at beginning of install on Dell laptop

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Michael Fulbright
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Reported:	2000-09-20 18:28 EDT by Jed Kivi
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-10-24 13:04:34 EDT
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Description Jed Kivi 2000-09-20 18:28:13 EDT

machine locks up once anaconda is started.

sysconfig is as follows

pcmcia net card ( tried with pcmcia, and boot images )
192M ram
128M swap
10G HD 
ATI mach64 ( tried both the text and graphical install )

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2000-09-25 15:49:16 EDT

Try another attempt, but keep switching back to virtual console 3 so you can see
what the last message
it outputs is. That will help us tell where it is hanging.

Comment 2 Jed Kivi 2000-10-04 13:18:20 EDT

switched to console 3, locks up right after looking for IDE floppys, tried
turning off secondary IDE channel, once I got partialy into the install but then
it bailed, I haven't been able to repeat that.

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2000-10-06 17:52:23 EDT

Could you try an expert install and see if it helps?

Comment 4 Jed Kivi 2000-10-09 13:28:11 EDT

the above information was in expert mode, but I installed rh7 just fine on the
same box.

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