Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 182708
Graphical install failed after root password and dump to floppy failed
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:25 EST
Description of problem: After entering the root password and then hitting next the install failed. I tried the save to floppy option but it just waited. The first time I would try to write to floppy I would get a warning about overwriting the floppy. After that nothing happened. I could select any of the three buttons at that point, but nothing further happened. I could switch a shell and do stuff there, but there didn't seem to be a way to continue the install from there. If I tried to continue without saving, the install would just abort. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: I tried three or four times and had the same results each time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt to go through DVD install with normal selections for a US location 2. I used a custom partition scheme using software raid 1 mirroring as I wanted to keep an FC4 installation I already had. I am not using lvm. 3. Actual results: Installation failed as described above. Expected results: Additional info: I have two DVD drives, but I tried installing from both. I have a radeon 9200. The systems has two athlon processors. The dump info was too much to write down and type back in by hand. However I did not the walkback information as I guessed that might be the most useful. gui.py 951 dispatch.py 146 dispatch.py 217 backend.py 148 yuminstall.py 606 __init__.py 252 repos.py 681 repos.py 625 mirror.py 414 mirror.py 400 grabber.py 618 grabber.py 547 grabber.py 606 grabber.py 920 grabber.py 987 grabber.py 967 IOError [Errno 5] Input/output error
Without the dump, it's very hard to know exactly what happened. But this looks like an error reading the CD. Did you run mediacheck?
No I did not. I just checked the DVD and it was bad. I will report back after I burn another one and retest things. But I expect that was the problem.
The problem was indeed a bad DVD. The blank I was using was scratched. I used another blank and the install went pretty much as expected. It doesn't look like I can close this myself, but it should be closed as NOTABUG.