From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 Description of problem: I tried upgrading a machine here that has Red Hat 7.3 on it. Anaconda hangs right after the "Installation Type" screen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot install cd 2.After "Installation Type" screen system hangs 3. Actual Results: Installation hangs Expected Results: a proper installation! Additional info: The installation seems to be 640x480 in a 800x600 screen (I have grey borders all around) and at the "Installation type" screen, I do not see the "upgrade" option as the screen is not big enough. When I click on "Custom installation" and click on "Next", installation freezes. Text mode install brings me up to the partitioning stage.
Have you tested the CDs using these instructions? http://people.redhat.com/~msf/mediacheck.html
Yes, I just did. The same CD's installed four other machines without problems. What about the screen being 640x480, and not being able to see the "Custom" installation choice?
I noticed this same problem as well on my inspiron 4000. After some playing around, it seems that what's happening is that the Upgrade option is getting rendered underneath the button bar (with Next, Back, etc on), however the clicks are still getting sent to the upgrade option. So, when you go to click Next or Back, instead of registering as a next or back click, its registering as selecting the upgrade option. This of course turns most of the options on the screen gray, causing the user to think that anaconda started doing something, when really its waiting for you to click a button that you can't. Booting with 'linux lowres' seems to ge a good workaround for this problem.
This sounds exactly like what was happening. Tomorrow, I'll try the lowres option and see if that works. This is a pretty bad bug...I hope it gets fixed.
Created attachment 73524 [details] Image of misrendered install type screen.
A good work around (that just worked for me fine) is choosing your option, and holding down "Alt" and hitting "N" (which will hotkey the "Next" key) to move on, so that you're not redirected to the "Upgrade" option (which I didn't even see)... Just my 2 cents...
I have the same problem with a Dell Latitude C600
You can also pass 'resolution=<mode>", where <mode> is something like 1024x768, to force anaconda into a mode. The other problem is known.
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Should be fixed internally.
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