Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 38654
[dma] installer hangs on /sbin/loader
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:32:57 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) installer locks up on blue screen immediately after /sbin/loader. in expert mode, installer prompts for: driver disk (no), language (english), keyboard (us), media (local cdrom)... then CD rom spins up, spins down, and system is locked up with blue screen. Machine has a pentum III/500mhz, 128mb single chip sdram, tyan motherboard, ATI Rage 3d video, IDE CDROM, 10gb IDE hard drive, and nothing else. I even pulled the 3com 3c5xx pci card, and it still locks up. SuSE 7.1 is currently on the system (its installer ran flawlessly) but I was rying to replace it with redhat (I wanted the 2.4.2 kernel for iptables, bind 9, bindconf and apacheconf modules). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.insert install cd rom 2.power up. 3.hit enter to continue viola - locked up. Actual Results: machine hangs Expected Results: installer runs see above
after a while, it finally said: failed to read /modules/module-info install exited abnormally sending termination signal yada yada yada you may now safely reboot yuor system
It doesnt work for me either. Same exact symptoms as this post. I have a Pentium 4, 1.4 GHz and an Intel 850 board.
Saw something after checking all posts having anything to do with installing RedHat 7.1 It seems that it is something with a BIOS limitation and 2.88MB images from the CDROM. Apparently if you make a floppy boot disk from the CD /images then it will work. I havent tried it yet..but I will in a few minutes. Bob
Nope, making a boot disk as suggested in another bug report did not work either. It hangs at /sbin/loader either with default or text install. I also updated to my latest Intel 850 BIOS to P12 thinking that the 2.88 mb image file problem would be fixed, but nada. Still same underlying problem as this original post.
Can either of you look on VC3 and VC4 and see if there are any error messages?
No. The computer is completely locked up. No console switching, ctrl-alt-del, or anything. Had to hold my power button in for 5-7 seconds to force it off.
What if you boot with 'linux ide=nodma'?
the linux ide=nodma worked for me. Better post that solution more prominently somewhere. Im sure we arent the only two that experienced that problem. Thanks for the help though..everything else installed without a glitch. Bob
Yes, this is a known issue. It will help us a lot if you can send the output of /proc/ide/hd(foo)/model so we can see the model name of the cdrom. Changing component to the kernel.
output from /proc/ide/hdc/model CD-R/RW RW7063A I dont remember what brand it was that I bought but I dont think it was a 'name' brand. Bob