I downloaded the ISO image of RH-6.1-i386 from a mirror, checked the md5 sum and was OK. I also checked the md5 sum of the burned image on it is OK. Installed on one machine and that worked fine. I tried another machine (which is currently working fine under RH-6.0 and Win95) and it booted the kernel, detected a few things and then hangs at "running /sbin/loader". When I switch to VT4 to see the kernel messages it prints every 5 seconds or so: "hdb: lost interrupt" and I'm stuck there (hdb is the CD-ROM driver). I tried this in graphical and text mode. I also tried in expert mode, but the same problem occurs. However, before that problem occurs I'm able to read everything from the CD-ROM without a problem in VT2 using the shell. So there must be something (module?) that is installed just before running "/sbin/loader" that makes a conflict with hdb (the CD-ROM). My config: P133, 64 MB RAM. First IDE controller: 2 Gb HD (master) and ATAPI CD-ROM (slave) Second IDE controller: 4 Gb HD (master) Logitech 3 button mouse on COM1 Modem on COM2 IoMega Parallel port Zip (100) drive on parallel port PCI Trio64V+ 2MB video card
I would like to add an interesting twist: I just downloaded the newest update image (1999:045) and tried the CD-ROM install using "linux updates" and "linux updates text" at the boot prompt. I am experiencing the same problem. I can switch to VT2 and read my CD-ROM, but I don't see the "lost interrupt" message (maybe I haven't waited long enough). The interesting twist is that I didn't have any problems with this on CD-ROM installs using the original boot disk, although I run into some other problems later on, preventing me from installing anything. The update was supposed to fix this, but it may have introduced another problem? Even though /sbin/loader hangs, I can still access a shell from VT2. Let me know if you want me to try a few things out. My config is: P2 300, 64 MB RAM First IDE: 4GB HD (maste) 6GB HD (slave) Second IDE: ATAPI CD-ROM (/dev/hdc) Logitech 3 button mouse on COM1 USR voice/fax modem on COM4 ATI Xpert98 4MB NE2000 compatible network card
Count me in, too. I used the latest "boot" image (1999:045) and typed various combinations of "linux updates" "text updates" "linux updates text" etc. always hangs on "running /sbin/loader". I was trying to work around the fatal NTFS upgrade bug/crash. Disks look like: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 497 3992121 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 498 523 208845 6 FAT16 i.e. NT on hda1, scratch FAT on hda2 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 2 16033+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 3 35 265072+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb3 36 243 1670760 83 Linux /dev/hdb4 244 1229 7920045 83 Linux /boot on hdb1, scratch EXT2 on hdb3 (may or may not contain a valid linux distribution of some sort or another), and my RH6.0 on /hdb4 ------- Additional Comments From 10/27/99 22:42 ------- I have a similar problem installing from a CD-ROM supplied in a shrink-wrapped Red Hat Linux 6.1 standard box. Graphical installation using the Standard Gnome Workstation option freezes computer while loading fourth or fifth file (when screen shown in Fig 4-19, p. 65, of Installation Guide is displayed.) If I switch to VT4 prior to freeze I see message "hdc: lost interrupt" repeating continuously every few seconds. System is AMD166 with 64MB ram, 3GB hard drive (master on primary ide channel), 16x CD-ROM (master on secondary ide channel), MS intellimouse on COM1, 33.6KB Logicode pnp modem on COM2, OPTi931 16bit pnp sound card, and 4MB ATI XPRESSION+ PCI video card. This system has successfully installed and run both OpenLinux 2.2 and SuSE Linux 6.0.
Actually this seems to be a problem with the kernel in RH 6.1 (2.2.12-20). I managed to install RH 6.1 from harddisk using the updated anaconda stuff. Everything went well during installation (note that I did not use the CD-ROM). When I rebooted the machine everything appeared to be OK under RH 6.1 until I tried to read somthing from CD-ROM. At that moment I got the periodical "hdb: lost interrupt" message, and I had to reboot. My conclusion is that this is a problem with the 2.2.12-20 kernel (I don't know if it is a problem with the 2.2.12 kernel itself, or if it is with the binary made available by RedHat). Ah! I used the normal (i.e. non-SMP) 586 kernel. The machine config is the same as I reported when opening the bug report. Namely: P133, 64 MB RAM. First IDE controller: 2 Gb HD (master) and 8x ATAPI CD-ROM (slave) Second IDE controller: 4 Gb HD (master) Logitech 3 button mouse on COM1 Modem on COM2 IoMega Parallel port Zip (100) drive on parallel port PCI Trio64V+ 2MB video card Creative Labs VIBRA16 PnP ISA sound card. I don't remember the motherboard or chipset but I can provide that if necessary. The machine works perfectly up until RH 6.0 (2.2.5 kernel). Any ideas?
More on this bug... I actually recompiled the 2.2.12-20 kernel from the redhat sources. As a starting point I used the redhat i586 (non-SMP) kernel config. After a while the CDROM showed the same error: "hdb: lost interrupt". A while before that the following message was printed: "hdb: disabling DSC seek overlap" (or something similar). I don't know what this means, or if it has any relation with the problem. To test the CD-ROM i used the following command find /mnt/cdrom -type f | xargs cat > /dev/null After the message "hdb: lost interrupt" the machine still works OK, although the CDROM can not be used any more, nor umounted, nor ejected. If I try to kill the processes accessing the CDROM a short while after the machine starts hanging, and any command on any shell or login prompt does not respond anymore. The ctrl-alt-del key combination does not work either, and I have to reset the machine. Also, after getting the infamous message, even if I do not try to kill the processes typing "reboot" just sits there, nothing happens (apart from the warning message on all VTs). Any ideas of what is going on?
Same problem here. I have a fairly bone stock system: AMD K2/300 FIC Va 503+ mb nc2000 clone network card Elsa Winner 2000 PROX/2 video card (S3 968) 96mb RAM hda=5gb E-IDE hdb=12x IDE CD-ROM drive I am using the latest boot disk due to the HPFS install problem and was able to get farther using the boxed boot disk. I experienced the same problem installing 6.0 and worked around it by using the 5.2 boot disk but have not yet been brave (stupid) enough to try it again with an upgrade.
I have seen this problem with 8x creative IDE cdrom, aka goldstar GCD-R580B. What brands of cdroms are you all experiencing this problem with? I'm looking for a common thread here. Also, how do you have these drives connected? To the onboard IDE controller, or on some other type of controller board (like off of a sound card. Yeach!)?
Yes I do have a true goldstar GCD-R580B 8x CD-ROM. It is connected as slave on the first IDE interface of the motherboard (/dev/hdb). Any hints to what is the problem? Thanks
This bug is likely to be a duplicate of Bug 8360
To get round the hanging at "running /sbin/loader", I've booted from a floppy and then only put the CD in when it reaches the language selection screen. However, I've still had other problems with the installation - I eventually got it to work on a P233, but on a 2xPII266 SMP box, it still fails though it often reaches the "performing post-install configuration" stage.
Getting a new CD-Rom drive allowed the installation to run okay. However, the old CD-Rom - a Philips CDU3610 CDRW drive - worked fine previously under "that other" operating system. Although I can accept that Linux drivers may perform better & make better use of features of drives, you'd think that a fallback mode would be useful so that you can at least manage to complete an installation...
This bug is is almost four months old without resolution. Why? My machine works find under Linux 5.2. I thought I would start testing the newer version and couldn't even install because of this lost interrupt problem. At least the last two days I've spent tracking down this known bug weren't wasted. I've learned where all the help/bug systems are on the Internet and how to use them. ;-)
I found the solution to my "lost interrupt" problem. The CD (IDE)drive I was using was a 12X drive. I replaced it with a 24X CD drive I had on the shelf and voila.....
I was having trouble installing with a 12x drive as well but had the problem go away with another drive I had sitting around... Of course, I now have a completely different system (dual Celeron) and it does not have any problems...
There may very well be something strange happening either with the drives themselves or with the kernel modules supporting the drives. We are not able to replicate this in the test lan with any of the drives that we have, and considering that the people talking about replacing their drives and things working are using the same module that the original drive was using, I have to assume that we have hardware problems. Please reopen this bug if you continue to have problems with versions of RawHide.