From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i586) When I put the 7.1 disc1 in my computer and press <enter> at the opening prompt, the screen changes to the hi-res text mode and displays a bunch of info then switches to the blue screen... If I have my PCMCIA SMC8040TX network card in, the computer locks up at the "loading PC Card drivers" menu. If I take out my network card (the only PCMCIA card in my computer), the computer locks up at the language selection menu. When the computer locks, in both cases, it does not respond to any keystroke or the power button. I have to pull out the battery and the AC plug. I have experienced locks of this nature in the past. Those have occured when I compiled my own 2.4.x kernels. The lock is the same and happens after "freeing kernel memory". I have found that downloading the 2.4.x kernel RPMS gets me by this problem so I have always assumed I was doing something wrong compiling it on my own. I hope you can figure this out-- I really want to try 7.1. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Put in 7.1 installer disc 1 (burned from ISO) 2. Press <enter> at first prompt 3. Computer locks at first prompt in "blue screen" section of the installer Actual Results: Computer locks. It does not respond to any keystroke or the power button. I need to pull the battery and the AC plug to shutdown. Expected Results: Installed RedHat 7.1 This type of locking up happens when I compile my own 2.4.x kernels right after "freeing kernel memory". The problem was fixed by installing Redhat kernel RPMS so I have assumed I was selecting an incompatible option when compiling my own kernel.
Hmm...that's weird. We tested 7.1 on many different types of laptops and we haven't seen anything like what you are describing. What kind of laptop do you have and what are the specs?
I booted my computer from a floppy using the boot.img image. Everything works fine this way. I guess you can probably close this bug report; however; I do still have problems with the 2.4 kernel after freeing kernel memory (when I compile it myself from the ftp.kernel.org site). For your records, my laptop is a Prostar 9870... Thanks.
Ok. Thanks for your report.
The only thing I would like to add is that the boot off CD installer still crashes but the boot.img file rawrite'd to a floppy works fine.