Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 30559
installer crashes while loading programs
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:56 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en]C-CCK-MCD NetscapeOnline.co.uk (Win98; U) Installing red hat for the first time. I have tried on two machines and get similar faults. I have tried installingon a linux partition created by partition magic. tried with one by LILO and also tried with partitionless installtion under DOS, (preferred for my applications). What happens, during the install process, the program loads various programs onto the disk. It never completes this task. On one machine it detects an 'error 11'. This is in 'text' mode and characters appear all over the screen. They appear to be a register dump of some sort. The installer attempts to get out of the mess and unloads something. pressing control/alt/delte halts the system. I've tried only loading a few programs, or the absolute minimum on that machine, and got nowhere. The second machine I tried it on ran the installer in graphics mode. Again this went wrong and reported a bug during the installatin process. The screen display asked me to save the information to a dsik, but none of the on screen buttons worked. I tried again, eliminating most of the to be installed programs, and this time i got a big report I could save on disk I was making a partitionless installtion to on a win98 machine. the other machine ran DOS. Both fail in 'similar' ways Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install from the CD or floppy 2. 3. Actual Results: it fails to complete the installation I did succeed once on the machine which has win98 on a partitionless install. I made the bug report not appear by eliminating most of the programs and installing a reduced system. Unfortunately I had to reload as i was unable to change the screen resolution. (I used Xconfiguator and got stuck in a 320 display so I reloaded -- or tried to ) Expected Results: red hat should load up At the moment windows wins (much to my disgust) I have a disk with one bug report on it generated by the machine
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I am having a similar problem but with some differences. I am installing on an IBM x220 server with ServeRAID 4L. I am adding to CC list. I have an Anacdump.txt on floppy if needed. In mine, the second "File ..." entry is similar to: File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in run rc = apply (step[1](), step[2]) Subsequent entries are as: File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 507, in __call__ if todo.doInstall (): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1630, in doInstall self.copyExtraModules() File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1348, in copyExtraModules os.rename(fromFile, to) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory The above happened in graphic install and text install from the Custom Install option. I used the RH boot diskette, started the install with "Linux dd text" to allow an OS driver diskette from IBM to be used during the boot steps. I had selected the local CD-ROM for the residence of the installable components and selected that all item be installed. Disk Druid allowed me to set several partitions. The installation sequence had asked for the second CD, and it was most of the way complete when the error occurs. I do not know enough about Linux to debug the sequence, but I know the error occurs after the RPM data base is copied from the CD. If this needs to be a completely new error, please notify me as soon as possible. But, with this one, 30559, and an earlier bug report involving RAID specifically, I decided to start here. Thanks JonP
What is your hardware configuration?
The hardware configuration is determined via the MSDOS 'MICROSOFT DIAGNOSTICS' command msd.exe# Computer = award/avant pentium(tm) award modular bios v 4.51p g isa/at classic bus memory = 640k,31744k ext video = vga,cirrus videobios cl-gd544 vga bios veeersion 1.00d vesa oem name cirrus logic gd-544xvga I have been able to install win98 on this machine. It required the cirrusmm.drv driver the computer I refere to is the first one i tried it on thanks chris
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27550 ***