Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 209017
Anaconda hangs on "Installing bootloader", files not found
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:44 EST
Description of problem: Anaconda hangs on the 'Installing bootloader' step after installing packages Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fc6-pre iso's How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Complete the system setup 2. Watch for the final configuration / bootloader windows to popup Actual results: The bootloader window sits there forever. Expected results: The bootloader should install Additional info: I switched VT's and grabbed this error message: [A bunch of Anaconda paths listed] ... in WriteGrub (line # 947) in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhpl/executil.py, line 81 in ExecWithRedirect OSError: No such file/folder.
Any errors on tty4? As this means that we probably had an error reading/writing files. Actually, hrmm... I wonder if this is related to some of the ext3 problems davej has seen...
Nope, no errors except the one I posted above. I formatted a ext3 partition for / during the install, incase it helps.
How much memory does your machine have?
256MB
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 210072 ***
If this is referring to firstboot coming up with no text being able to be added to create the default user, I have experienced this on a GUI install using linux xdriver=vesa as the argument to the installer. Checkimg out errors marked as duplicates to a bug that I submitted. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209036
Nope, this is different - My system never even gets to firstboot, it freezes on the bootloader installation on the Anaconda installer CDs. (Well, in my case, DVD)