From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Installer hangs after selecting generic vga/svga/vga16 card (any of these). Installer shows the "Unknown EDD version" from the welcome page forward. I have worked around the error by using unknown card, and selecting SVGA. The video card is an old ISA based 1mb Tseng ET4000. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start install see error above 2.Select Custom, add KDE. 3.Accept defaults for all questions (no new drivers, etc.) 4.Select any vga/svga/vga16 option 5.Installer crashes Actual Results: Installer crashes. Expected Results: Install continue Machine is older p90 with smp capability, does not have second cpu installed. 64MB ram, 2 ne2000 cards, generic modem on com 1. Generic mouse on com2. This machine has been a rh6.2 machine for some time, decided to reformat/reinstall with fisher.
We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.
What kind of monitor do you have attached to the video card?
there is a traceback associated with this crash, isn't there?
I tried a few different monitors. All three gave the same error. They were a generic vga monitor, and IBM vga monitor and a NEC Multisync II. I went back and re-installed rh6.2, and remembered another possibly important piece of information. The 6.2 install went fine, but when rebooting, it hangs with an IDE timeout error. To make it work, I had to recompile a kernel WITHOUT smp. Then all was fine. Perhaps it's the same (unfixed) error in the 2.4 kernel. Would it be possible to add an option to the install for using a non-smp kernel, similar to the other options on the boot screen of the install (i.e. expert,...,no-smp)? I did a traceback, but have misplaced the disk. I'll re-install in the next couple of days and attach the traceback information.
Additional error message noticed: Error selecting XFree86 server package: package XFree86-XF86_SVGA is not available.
Deferring until a future release.
Curiously, if I go through the install process again and use the same partitions created by disk druid the first time around, the install succeeds.