From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 4.0) Description of problem: During the installation of Redhat 7.1 from hard disk, the installer crashes after selecting the packages and after selecting the video card. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start the installation (Hard disk or network. I didn't try CD-ROM) 2.Answer all questions normally 3. Actual Results: The installer crashed after detecting the video card. Expected Results: The installer should start installing the selected packages. Additional info: The installer crashes after I select the packages and after it identifies the video card I have. I get the following message in the screen (the display on the screen will be jumbled): type read: Operation not permitted pfd: 11 install exited abnormally sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap... <= After this, I see <Tab>/<Alt-tab> between elements | <Space> selects : <F12> next screen unmounting filesystems... /mnt/runtime/usr /proc/bus/usb /mnt/runtime /dev/pts /proc you may sefely reboot your system <End of message> This happens with any type of installation (default, expert, nofb, lowres). I can't get the graphical mode. Anaconda tries to start, but displays a message briefly and installer switches to text mode install. aic7xxx driver is loaded first. I have AHA-2940 SCSI card with 3 disks. Details as follows: /dev/sda1 FAT32 Win 98 /dev/sdb Free For new Linux /dev/sdc1 FAT32 Installation ISO images I created /dev/sdb1 for / with approx. 1804 MB and a swap partition of approx. 196 MB. I tried installing the bootloader on /dev/sda and on /dev/sdb1. Results are the same. Proceeding further, after I select the package groups I want, X probes and finds that I have Matrox Millennium video card and the X server is XF86_SVGA. Right after I select OK for this, the installer displays about log file and when I select OK, it immediately crashes. I have the following on Alt+Fn screens (I typed these manually. Please bear with any typos): Alt+F2 - # prompt (hung) Alt+F3: (last portion) ------ * got url hd://sdc1:vfat/ * getting ready to spawn shell now * probing buses * finished bus probing * found suggestion of tulip * found tulip device * found suggestion of tulip * found tulip device * found suggestion of usb-uhci * found devices justProbe is 0 * going to insmod tulip.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod raid0.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod raid1.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod xor.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod raid5.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod msdos.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod ext3.o (path is NULL) * looking for usb mouse... * no IDE floppy device found * Detected 96M of memory * Swap attempt of 96M to 192M * Maximum cylinder is 230 * X is being installed, need to enable server if set Alt-F4 (last portion) ------ <6>Linux Tulip driver version 0.91.14 (February 20, 2001) <6>eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 48 at 0xec00, 00:00:F8:79:11:6C, IRQ 10. <6>eth0: EEPROM default media type Autosense. <6>eth0: Index #0 - Media 10BaseT (#0) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block. <6>eth0: Index #1 - Media 10BaseT-FD (#4) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block. <6>eth0: Index #2 - Media 10Base2 (#1) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block. <6>eth0: Index #3 - Media AUI (#2) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block. <6>eth0: Index #4 - Media AUI (#11) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block. <6>eth0: ***WARNING***: No MII transeiver found! <6>eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip rev 48 at 0xe480, 00:00:F8:02:44:96, IRQ 10. <6>eth0: EEPROM default media type Autosense. <6>eth0: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block. <6>eth0: MII transceiver #5 config 3100 status 7809 advertising 01e1. <6>raid0 personality registered as nr 2 <6>raid1 personality registered as nr 3 <6>raid5: measuring checksumming speed <4> 8regs : 314.400 MB/sec <4> 32regs : 181.600 MB/sec <4>raid5: using function 8regs (314.400 MB/sec) <4>raid5 personality regsitered as nr 4 <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A <6>cdrom: open failed. <6>cdrom: open failed. <6>cdrom: open failed. <6>cdrom: open failed. <6>cdrom: open failed. <6>cdrom: open failed. <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A <6>cdrom: open failed. <6>cdrom: open failed. I also tried FTP and HTTP installations. It fails at the same place with the only difference in the number that appears "pfd:". It is 11 in case of hard disk install and 15 in case of network install.
What kind of machine is this?
The machine is a Digital (DEC) PC Celebris GL6200 Pentium Pro 200MHz with on- board 21142 based network card, IDE controller, AHA-2940 SCSI card, on-board Matrox Millennium video card (2 MB), on-board ESS1888, 2 USB ports and 96M memory. It also has an additional Digital 21140 network card.
Uh-oh. I was afraid this might be a Celebris. The kernel just appears to not work on those machines. This is a dupe of bug #37592. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37592 ***