Bug 73838 - 7.3 installer hangs 9.6 seconds into formatting /boot file system
Summary: 7.3 installer hangs 9.6 seconds into formatting /boot file system
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 75008
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-09-11 22:05 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:46 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2002-09-26 17:55:10 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
dump file from anaconda (55.93 KB, text/plain)
2002-09-11 22:14 UTC, Need Real Name
no flags Details
file as dumped by instal program (83.47 KB, text/plain)
2002-09-26 17:55 UTC, James M. Condie
no flags Details

Description Need Real Name 2002-09-11 22:05:05 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)

Description of problem:
I installed 7.3 server without success, then tried workstation both used the 
default options upto and including autopartition. I'm using an Athlon XP with 
nVidia GeForce 2 chip set (Crush 11). I selected "linux noprobe". I saved the 
data to anacdump.txt.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot 7.3 from CD
2.select either workstation or server 
3.select default options
	

Actual Results:  system always hangs ~9.5 seconds into formatting /boot File 
System.

Expected Results:  The system should have formatted and partitioned the hard 
drive, then rebooted.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2002-09-11 22:14:23 UTC
Created attachment 75824 [details]
dump file from anaconda

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2002-09-13 21:15:39 UTC
Have you tested your CDs?

http://people.redhat.com/~msf/mediacheck.html

Comment 3 James M. Condie 2002-09-26 17:55:04 UTC
Created attachment 77327 [details]
file as dumped by instal program

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2002-10-24 17:56:05 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75008 ***


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