Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 65125
Installer crashes when upgrading from skipjack to 7.3
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:42:39 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 Description of problem: When upgrading from skipjack to 7.3 on an IBM thinkpad t20 using iso images on the hard drive (checked MD5SUMS -everything is correct, also using text install) or via FTP install, the installer will crash at the same point every time. I choose upgrade and it scans for files to be upgraded and then prepares to upgrade and then as it's about to start loading rpms (glibc-common is the first one listed) all of a sudden something "signal 11", "sending kill signal" appears on the screen followed by "disabling swap..." "unmounting filesystems..." etc. till it finally gets to "you may safely reboot your system" VT4 shows the following repeated over and over: <4>Error -3 while decompressing! <4>c02a4684(260)->c1c8e000(4096) <4>Error -3 while decompressing! <4>c02a4684(-2216)->c25cb000(4096) it repeats over and over with different numbers Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot install program 2.choose upgrade 3.installer crashes Actual Results: installer crashes Expected Results: 7.3 should have installed Additional info: iso from harddrive and FTP based install produced the exact same problem
How are you booting the install? Sounds like you're missing the 'ramdisk_size=8192' parameter to the kernel.
I was booting the installer from grub since I didn't have my floppy drive with me. I just tried the installer with 'ramdisk_size=8192' and it now works fine. Thanks!