Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 36583
Installer hangs at final stage of boot disk creation
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:32:43 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i586) I believe that RH Linux 7.0 on installation is hanging at the final stage of boot disk creation due to /dev/fd1 being assigned to the floppy drive unit. If skip boot disk creation is selected, Selecting next shuts down the system correctly. If the create boot disk option is selected, the installation hangs and a CTRL ALT DEL is required at the end of the install process. Reproducible: Didn't try, but did try both of the above options.
Do you know why /dev/fd1 is being assigned to floppy? Are there other devices on the floppy controller?
No additional devices on floppy controller. AMI Bios Ver 2.2 Standard CMOS Setup Floppy A: Not Installed Floppy B: 1.44MB 3 1/2" Advanced CMOS Setup Floppy Drive Swap Enabled 36 Way cable attached to floppy drive on centre connector.
Try setting Floppy A to 1.44MB 3 1/2" and Floppy B to Not Installed. I think this might solve the problem. Also, on your floppy cable, I think the primary floppy drive needs to be the one on the end of the floppy cable...the end that has the twist in the ribbon cable. Try this and see if it helps.
Flawless installation with the floppy drive unit wired as you have suggested and also with the changes to CMOS SETUP in effect. **************************************************************************** I would also like to pass comment that under the previous configuration that caused the problem with the install process, that /etc/fstab had to be manually edited to /dev/fd1 instead of /dev/fd0, to get the floppy drive unit to work correctly once the operating system was up and running. ****************************************************************************