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This bug occurs both in text and graphic mode. It is impossible for me to install a RedHat 7.0 on my system (i already applied the patches on anaconda). Just after the partitioning, the installer gets a signal 11 and exits without other messages. It does not seem to be a DiskDruid bug. I got the same with good old fdisk. Here is an old dmesg i saved a long time ago on the same system. (The hardware is still the same, the software was updated to RedHat 6.2 later). Linux version 2.2.5-15 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Apr 19 22:21:09 EDT 1999 Detected 332704788 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 663.55 BogoMIPS Memory: 95588k/98304k available (996k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1248k data, 60k init) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized Enabling new style K6 write allocation for 96 Mb CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb320 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: 00:38 [1106/0586]: Work around ISA DMA hangs (00) Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: ST320420A, ATA DISK drive hdc: CD-ROM CDU701, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: ST320420A, 19458MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=2480/255/63 hdc: ATAPI 14X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed raid5: using high-speed MMX checksum routine pII_mmx : 713.613 MB/sec p5_mmx : 638.937 MB/sec 8regs : 486.918 MB/sec 32regs : 349.377 MB/sec using fastest function: pII_mmx (713.613 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 > autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov) NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x320: 00 80 c8 93 b9 e1 eth0: NE2000 found at 0x320, using IRQ 9. Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 4.16 detected OK (220) SB16: Bad or missing 16 bit DMA channel i2c: initialized Linux video capture interface: v1.00 bttv0: Brooktree Bt848 (rev 18) bus: 0, devfn: 80, irq: 10, memory: 0xe4400000. bttv: 1 Bt8xx card(s) found. bttv0: model: BT848(Miro) parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2] parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation. parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus Photo 870 imm: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.0.0) imm: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit imm: Communication established with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit scsi0 : Iomega VPI2 (imm) interface scsi : 1 host. Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: P.05 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28 sda : extended sense code = 2 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP: version 2.3.3 (demand dialling) PPP line discipline registered. registered device ppp0
do you have a win partition? if yes try not to give it a mount node!! this worked on my machine . But other errors are still there then
Could you try installing without the ZIP drive attached?
also, does running in expert mode help ...?
Installing without the ZIP drive works just fine. Expert mode is not needed.
When you were having problems, was there a disk in the Zip drive?
No floppy in the ZIP drive... Absolutely sure.
What type of interface is the Zip drive attached to?
It's a parallel ZIP drive...
Thanks for the information, passing to QA to verify.
How much RAM is in your system?
I already send you a dmesg output : (see above on the bug web page) Memory: 95588k/98304k available (996k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1248k And yes it's true, there was 96Mb of RAM on this system.
Noting that having a parallel zip drive attached may caused problems installing. I cannot find a reason for this, but if more reports occur we will have this report to refer to.