From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Install boots from cd-rom drive, goes through up to Redhat Splash Screen and hangs. Require cold boot. Version 7.0 will install just fine on same system. (Tyan S1834 Tiger 133 M/B, (2) Intel 533 cpu installed, (2) 256MB RAM (133), Matrox AGP 16Mb, Maxtor 23Gb H/D, Generic 52X CD-ROM, Linksys LTN-100 Card, no sound card, no modem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Cold boot after hang 2.Select any installation method 3.Will hang at Red Hat Splash Screen, after X server starts Actual Results: System hangs Expected Results: Install should continue
Can you tell us if there are any error messages? Does text mode work?
There is no error messages. Text mode does produce the same result. I am going to try to do an upgrade from 7.0 and see if I can get an upgrade/install log file. I did try to do an upgrade earlier, but got a hang at the splash screen, and no log file.
This is not my finest hour. Finally resolved the problem. Setup in cmos which created the problem was: Primary IDE channel: Hard drive as master, CD-ROM as slave, connected with DMA66 type cable, access set to AUTO. Secondary IDE channel: Disabled New settings and connections: Primary IDE channel: CD-ROM set to master, connected with DMA33 type cable. Secondary IDE channel: Hard drive set to master, connected with DMA33 type cable. Access for both set to auto in CMOS. I tried several other hard drive/CD-ROM combinations, this is the only one that will work for me. I should have caught this one right away.
No problem. Happens to the best of us. :)