Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 74387
Install hangs at Installing Packages
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:52 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826 Description of problem: Null fails to install on my Athlon XP2200+ machine. I answer all the questions in the installer. Gets to the screen where it has the progress bar (Installing RedHat). Hard drive makes a quick noise and then nothing. sits here forever. Switching to console 4 shows the HDA partitions (sometimes it doesn't even show that). console 5 and 6 show nothing. I don't think its formating the hard drive. Installing RH7.3 on the same machine works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Beta Null on XP2200+ with IDE harddrive 2. 3. Actual Results: System was responsive but installer hung. I also tried running hdparam -I /dev/hda from console 2 and that just hung. Expected Results: Install should begin.. drive should format Additional info:
Just noticed that when I do a ps auxww on console 2 I see mkswap running and its Defunct.
I have also experienced this problem, while trying to install on my Athlon 1600+ and also on my Athlon 1800+. In both cases, the install seemed to hang, either during the format of the drive, both machines have IDE drives. other times, it hangs while installing packages. Only on an Intel system, have I been successful in installing NULL.
Any interesting errors on VC4?
The last two messages on Console 4 are: <6> cdrom: open failed <6> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 I am installing via nfs so there is no cdrom in the drive. At this point the hard drive light is on solid. I was able to run the hdparm -I /dev/hda command before I got to this point in the install (actually right after I partitioned the disk), but now with mkswap /dev/hda3 being defunct when I run hdparm now it just prints hda and hangs. Strange thing is I was able to install on a different hard drive (much older drive, 4.3 GB) but the bios didn't see the drive so I couldn't boot. This is an Asus A7V333 motherboard with bios 1008. Like I said this same setup works with RH 7.3
http://www.maxtor.com/SoftwareDownload/ide/91080D5.txt link to the drive that Null fails to install on.
Appears to be a kernel driver related issue.
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