Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 27461
Intaller Hangs during installation
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:27 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) We are having some trouble installing the Fisher on IA64 release. When it is time for the installer to format the drive it hangs. I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide us with some help on this issue. System Spec: Itanium B3 stepping Bios 89 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.eli 2.Go through screens until the step that does the actual formatting of the partitions. 3. System hangs.
What SCSI adapter? Workstation machines, I assume. GUI or text install?
We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.
System: Big Sur (Workstation) What SCSI adapter? Qlogig 1280 GUI or text install? I used the GUI install. Is there a text based one? Where do I get it from? The version I got doesn't seem to allow for a text mode. I download it from ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/beta/fisher/iso
If you boot the install with 'eli linux text' (or 'linux text' at the ELI prompt) it will go into a text mode install.
Does the text install work any better? When the GUI install freezes, can you switch to a virtual console?
Hi, I tried to install the distribution in text mode as you suggested. Same results. However, I get the following message at the time the system hangs: Kernel Panic: map_single: could not allocate software IO TLB (16384 bytes) In interrupt handler - not syncing Francisco
Add 'swiotlb=16384' to the boot prompt, and you should be able to install successfully. For some reason, you're installing on a SCSI controller that doesn't handle 64-bit PCI access. The onboard Qlogic cards should.