From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I am booting with my laptop Compaq Armada E500 on the installation CDROM of RedHat 7.1... I specify I want to use Disk Druid to create 2 partitions (1 for Linux and the other one as LinuxSwap). Then I select all the packages I want to be installed and the setup package starts and then it hangs... How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot with installation CD 2.Answer all screens 3.use Disk Druid to specify hda1 of 10Gb (Linux) and hda2 of 1.5Gb (LinuxSwap) 4.let it "format the hard drive" Actual Results: An Error message appeared, I saved it to a floppy and copied it the Additional Information field. Expected Results: create the partitions and start installing all the software packages selected. Additional info: Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 19, in run rc = self.todo.doInstall () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1765, in doInstall self.fstab.turnOnSwap(self.instPath) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 505, in turnOnSwap isys.ddfile(file, size, (self.progressWindow, File "/mnt/redhat/test/qa0408.4/i386/RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/isys .py", line 90, in ddfile fd = os.open(file, os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREAT) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/mnt/loophost/rh-swap.img' Local variables in innermost frame: buf:
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Can you try booting with 'ide=nodma'? Does that help?
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