Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 56776
installer freezes during package installation ( 7.1 & 7.2)
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:51 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Description of problem: H/W: Tyan S2567 motherboard with 1 GB memory in Bank0, 40Gig HD, 50X CDROM Problem: Redhat 6.2 installs fine. Redhat 7.1 and 7.2 installation freeze during package install. Tried "text" install and "text "ide=nodma"" install. All consoles are frozen, but if console is left at <alt><cntrl>F4, note: <7> probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard" <7> probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration A few seconds later, the system is frozen. The motherboard uses the ServerWorks chipset, not VIA. This occurs on multiple TYAN S2567 motherboards, and DOESN'T occur with REDHAT 6.2 installs, or SUSE - therefore I don't believe that it is truly a hardware bug. Any help would be appreciated. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install with "text" or "text "ide=nodma" or just <ENTER> 2. wait until installing packages 3. Actual Results: full system is frozen Expected Results: installation Additional info:
I can't say for sure, but it sounds like this is a kernel issue to me. Changing component. Arjan, are you familiar with this hardware?
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