From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98) Description of problem: My system is as follows: ASUS CUV4X-E Motherboard 1 GHz P3 Adaptec 29160 SCSI Controller Two IBM 36G 10,000 RPM U160 Hard Drives I am raiding the two hard drives. I set up the partitions with Disk Druid. My partition info is as follows: Mount Point Device Requested Actual Type <Swap> sda5 128M 133M Linux Swap <Swap> sdb5 128M 133M Linux Swap /boot md0 31M RAID1[sda1, sdb1] / md1 34836M RAID1 [sda6, sdb6] I am having the installer format both the / and the /boot partitions. The "use linear mode" box is checked, but I am not specifying any kernel options. I am selecting the "everything" option on the package selection page. The installer formats the drives and then begins to install the packages. Somewhere between 0% and 25% of the install, the installer hangs completely. The mouse won't move, and I can't switch to a virtual console to see the log messages. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select installation options as described above. 2. Proceed with install. 3. The installer hangs while installing packages. Actual Results: The installer hangs while installing packages. The hang happens on different packages each time, but always hangs between 0% and 25%. Expected Results: The installer shouldn't hang. All the packages should be installed correctly. Additional info: I tried various combinations of nousb, ide=nodma, and nofb for the installer options, but they didn't fix the problem. I also tried the boot disk that supposedly fixed the 29160 problem with the 440GX motherboard (even though I have a different motherboard), but that didn't fix the problem either.
Are these cd's that you downloaded and burned yourself?
I ordered the CD's from cheapbytes.com. I have used the same CD's to install RH7.1 on 4 other machines (with different hardware, of course) and had no problems.
No, I did not download and burn them myself. I ordered the CD's from cheapbytes.com. I have used the same CD's to install RH7.1 on 4 other machines (with different hardware, of course) and had no problems.
I'm going to change the component to the kernel since it appears this problem may be related to the Adaptec driver.
When this bug was switched to kernel, I looked through the kernel bugs and saw the stuff about the experimental driver (aic7xxx_mod). I started the install with the noprobe option and selected the aic7xxx_mod driver, but unfortunately this didn't fix the problem. The installer locked up while formatting my partitions.
Is there anything else I can do to help gather info on this?
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/