Bug 39032 – Installation reboots or freeses DELL Inspiron 5000e

Bug 39032 - Installation reboots or freeses DELL Inspiron 5000e

Summary:	Installation reboots or freeses DELL Inspiron 5000e

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i686 Linux

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Assigned To:	Brent Fox
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Reported:	2001-05-03 17:09 EDT by Gregory Altman
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:33 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-05-25 00:06:13 EDT
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Description Gregory Altman 2001-05-03 17:09:23 EDT

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Description of problem:
Installation reboots or freeses DELL Inspiron 5000e

The text/nofb/expert/lowres and combinations were tried.
When a boot diskette is used, the machine halts with CRC error reported.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot Inspiron 5000e from CD-ROM = crash/freeze
2.Boot Inspiron 5000e from diskette = crash with CRC error
3.
	

Actual Results:  Nothing. The machine freezes or reboots.

Expected Results:  Installation should proceed.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-05-04 11:33:22 EDT

Try booting with 'linux ide=nodma'.  Does this help?

Comment 2 Gregory Altman 2001-05-11 17:38:17 EDT

"linux ide=nodma" does not help!

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-05-14 18:09:34 EDT

Have you run any other versions of Linux on this machine?  Also, have you tried
these cdroms in different machines?

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2001-05-25 00:06:08 EDT

Closing due to inactivity.  Please reopen if you have more information.

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