Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 6478
RH 6.1 on a 386 installation.
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:39:15 EST
I am installing RH 6.1 on a 386 6800SX By Leading Technology INC, the computer has a floppy, 8x cdrom, 200MB IDE HD, 8MB of Ram, and a SMC Ultra 16 ISA. I have installed RH 6.1 on one of my computers already many times, but I usually use the bootable cdrom feature. On the 386 I use a floppy "boot.img" then it asks me for a "driver disk" so I just skip this step, oh, and the HD and cdrom are detected when the kernel boots. After I skip the "driver disk" prompt, it asks me if I want to install any other drivers, SCSI or Network, and I chose the SMC card drivers, and the card gets detected. The install cd, DOES of course get mounted, and then after installing the SMC card I get a blue screen with something like "Installing Redhat Linux" on the top right, and the cursor blinking on the bottom righ. Then the install program copies something from the cdrom for a while (this is a sloooow computer), and then it exits from the blue screen and writes on the black backround: install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 7 sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done unmounting filesystems... /mnt/source /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system And that is all I get... I know this computer is old, but it does run dos and windoze 3.1 fine. Humm... Any ideas?
Same problem on a Gateway 486/33 with 8MB RAM, 250 WD Hard drive, Sony 4X CD, Diamond SpeedPro 1MB graphics and SMC network cards. Tried with the boot.img from October 21 and received the signal 7. Tried running the autoboot in dosutils on the CD (the system currently run W95) and received the signal 7. HDA and HDC show up as detected. Didn't load the network drivers and still received the signal 7. The last line on screen 3 was "* going to insmod raid5.o (path is null)" The last line on screen 4 was "<6> raid5 personality registered"
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A signal 7 is the result of running out of memory during the installation.