Description of Problem: I've downloaded the first iso cd image (or the image of first cd) of RedHat Linux 7.1 for i386 from the URL (of a mirror) ftp://softcity.iol.it/pub/redhat/redhat/redhat-7.1-en/iso/i386/ I've dowloaded it under Windows 98, by the ftp client program named "CoffeeCup Free FTP" (and I've done some resume), by an adsl internet connection. But, after I've writed it on a cd-r, and I've started the installation process, after few seconds the installer breaks down, and automatically generate a text file for bugzilla (writed automatically in a floppy disk). This is the text: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 520, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1126, in run rc = apply (step[1](), args) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/packages_text.py", line 33, in __call__ todo.getCompsList() File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 769, in getCompsList self.comps = self.method.readComps(self.hdList) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 17, in readComps return ComponentSet(self.tree + '/RedHat/base/comps', hdlist) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 542, in __init__ self.readCompsFile(file, self.packages) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 409, in readCompsFile file = urllib.urlopen(filename) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/urllib.py", line 57, in urlopen _urlopener = FancyURLopener() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/urllib.py", line 447, in __init__ apply(URLopener.__init__, (self,) + args) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/urllib.py", line 92, in __init__ self.__unlink = os.unlink # See cleanup() NameError: s Local variables in innermost frame: proxies: {} server_version: Python-urllib/1.10 self: <urllib.FancyURLopener instance at 85628a8> ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'resState' p3 S'' sS'progressWindow' p4 NsS'setupFilesystems' p5 I1 sS'monitorVsync' p6 S'' sS'videoCardStateNode' p7 S'' sS'serial' p8 I0 sS'ddruidReadOnly' p9 I0 sS'bootdisk' p10 I0 sS'videoRamState' p11 S'' sS'monitorOriginalName' p12 S'' sS'language' p13 (itodo Language (dp14 S'langInfoByName' p15 (dp16 S'Arabic (Yemen)' p17 (S'ar_YE' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Spanish (Argentina)' p18 (S'es_AR' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Italian (Italy)' p19 (S'it_IT@euro' p20 S'iso15' p21 S'lat0-sun16' p22 tsS'Arabic (Lebanon)' p23 (S'ar_LB' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Spanish (Guatemala)' p24 (S'es_GT' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Malay (Malaysia)' p25 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(Britain)' p123 (S'gv_GB' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tssS'allSupportedLangs' p124 (lp125 g49 ag82 ag53 ag32 ag98 ag28 ag79 ag29 ag23 ag26 ag51 ag27 ag97 ag106 ag120 ag76 ag102 ag62 ag17 ag96 ag116 ag56 ag61 ag33 ag77 ag55 ag86 ag45 ag115 ag122 ag109 ag44 ag89 ag114 ag100 ag59 ag52 ag85 ag30 ag67 ag92 ag119 ag57 ag83 ag99 ag108 ag34 ag103 ag31 ag58 ag63 ag81 ag110 ag94 ag113 ag39 ag35 ag66 ag101 ag121 ag54 ag78 ag19 ag80 ag104 ag36 ag73 ag25 ag123 ag50 ag91 ag71 ag69 ag48 ag64 ag90 ag47 ag46 ag72 ag111 ag18 ag60 ag75 ag95 ag43 ag107 ag40 ag70 ag24 ag42 ag38 ag93 ag87 ag65 ag41 ag117 ag74 ag68 ag112 ag88 ag105 ag84 ag118 ag37 asS'info' p126 (dp127 S'SYSFONT' p128 g22 sS'SUPPORTED' p129 S'it_IT@euro:it_IT:it' p130 sS'SYSFONTACM' p131 g21 sS'LANG' p132 g20 ssS'supported' p133 (lp134 g19 asS'default' p135 g19 sbsS'instClass' p136 (icustom InstallClass (dp137 S'rootPasswordCrypted' p138 I0 sS'raidList' p139 (lsS'nameserver' p140 S'' sS'x' NsS'rootPassword' p141 NsS'makeBootdisk' p142 I0 sS'installType' p143 NsS'postScript' p144 NsS'earlySwapOn' p145 I0 sS'networkDevice' p146 NsS'fstab' p147 (lsS'clearText' p148 NsS'lilo' p149 (S'mbr' p150 I1 S'' tsg13 NsS'name' p151 S'' sS'postInChroot' p152 I0 sS'pixmap' p153 S'' sS'partitions' p154 (lp155 (S'/boot' p156 (I48 I-1 I0 t(S'' I-1 I0 t(I0 I0 tNta(S'/' (I700 I-1 I1 t(S'' I-1 I0 t(I0 I0 tNta(S'swap' p157 (I96 I192 I1 t(S'' I-1 I0 t(I0 I0 tNtasS'clearType' p158 S'wkst' p159 sS'gateway' p160 S'' sS'mouse' p161 NsS'packages' p162 NsS'timezone' p163 NsS'zeroMbr' p164 I0 sS'keyboard' p165 NsS'groups' p166 NsS'bootProto' p167 NsS'netmask' p168 S'' sS'langdefault' p169 NsS'skipSteps' p170 (dsS'auth' p171 (I1 I1 I0 S'' I0 S'' I0 I0 S'' S'' I0 S'' S'' S'' I0 S'' S'' tsS'hostname' p172 NsS'langsupported' p173 NsS'showgroups' p174 NsS'ip' p175 S'' sS'firewall' p176 (I-1 I1 (lp177 S'' I0 I0 I0 I0 I0 I0 tsS'defaultRunlevel' p178 NsS'desktop' p179 S'' sS'clearPartText' p180 S'Automatic partitioning will erase any preexisting Linux installations on your system.' p181 sS'clearParts' p182 I2 sbsS'bdstate' p183 S'' sS'extraModules' p184 (lp185 sS'skipLilo' p186 I0 sS'rootpassword' p187 NsS'fdDevice' p188 S'fd0' p189 sS'installSystem' p190 I1 sS'comps' p191 NsS'verifiedState' p192 Nsg171 (itodo Authentication (dp193 S'useNIS' p194 I0 sS'nisServer' p195 S'' sS'useLdap' p196 I0 sS'krb5Kdc' p197 S'' sS'ldapTLS' p198 I0 sS'useHesiod' p199 I0 sS'ldapServer' p200 S'' sS'nisDomain' p201 S'' sS'krb5Realm' p202 S'' sS'useLdapauth' p203 I0 sS'hesiodRhs' p204 S'' sS'useShadow' p205 I1 sS'nisuseBroadcast' p206 I0 sS'useKrb5' p207 I0 sS'useMD5' p208 I1 sS'ldapBasedn' p209 S'' sS'krb5Admin' p210 S'' sS'hesiodLhs' p211 S'' sS'hesiodDlhs' p212 S'' sbsS'users' p213 NsS'hdList' p214 NsS'dhcpState' p215 S'' sS'method' p216 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p217 (dp218 g4 <failed> How Reproducible: Every time I boot the computer from that cd. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
try booting with "linux ide=nodma". If this fixes the problem run the following after you install your system and add the info here. for I in /proc/ide/hd*; do echo $I; cat $I/model; done
I've tried to do what you've told me... and... it runs! After I've booted from the cd, I wrote "linux ide=nodma", and the installer succesfully started! Thank you very much! :-) Now I'm using my new RedHat 7.1 (it's very nice!), and I'm connected to internet via adsl (with the RedHat 6.2 I wasn't able to activate my adsl internet connection -but maybe it wasn't for the RedHat 6.2, but for me... :-) -) But... excuse me, I'm a newbie... what means what you've told me later? I have to digit, at a shell promt, exactly this command: "for I in /proc/ide/hd*; do echo $I; cat $I/model; done" ?
That's correct, please type in that command and send us the output.
I've typed what you've writed, and this is the output: /proc/ide/hda Maxtor 82100A4 /proc/ide/hdb ST38410A /proc/ide/hdc LG CD-RW CED-8042B /proc/ide/hdd CRD-8400B But... before, some times ago, I've installed a RedHat 6.1 (and also, later, a 6.2 one) on the same computer I'm using now, and it runned without any problem! Why do you want blacklist my CDROM? :-)
RHL71 is the first version that enabled (Ultra)DMA on devices that in the "device query" report that they support this. This increases speed a lot, esp for harddrives and newer cdrom drives, however there's a small number of (usually older) devices that claim to support DMA, but once the kernel starts using it, totally get confused because they don't actually support it. There is a list of such devices, and if a device is on that list (yours will be added), the kernel will not try DMA on it. That's the "DMA Blacklist" :)
Thank you for have helped me, and for this information you gave me. And... I hope I was useful to you. :-) Goodbye. :-) p.s.: I'm sorry for my bad English... I'll study better soon. :-)
Ok one last question: which of the drives was the cd in when this failed? The CDRW or the normal cdrom drive ?
Oh, I'm sorry if I missed to tell you before: it was the CDRW, from which it's possible to boot the computer. Thank you, and goodbye. :-)