Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 74836
Be sure to document nofirewire workaround in syslinux
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:46:59 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020606 Description of problem: The installer hangs and system becomes completly panicked Cannot Ctr/alt function-key to addition screen to provied any more information. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Drop Redhat 8.0 Disc into Sager 8880 notebook cdrom drive 2.Try any of install methods, standard, text, noprobe, expert, etc. 3.Wait for installer to initalize 1394 driver and crash Actual Results: Installtion freezes up permintally, must do restart. Expected Results: Instalation should have continued as did with Redhat 7.3 Additional info: Sager Notebook 8880, P4 2600, 1024 megs ram, dvd/cdrom drive 1 firewire port, pre-existing redhat 7.3 and win xp install dual boot
Please try adding 'nofirewire' to the boot command line for anaconda.
Reporter told me in email that 'nofirewire noprobe' helped. Need to make sure this is documented.
I am unable to follow the solution you have provided. Specifically it fails after step 4: 4.press 'enter' and then 'b' 5.issue the command below to disable hardware detection: chkconfig kudzu off When I press 'enter' and then 'b' as instructed in step 4 the boot process runs until I get to the point where the system freezes (i.e. I don't have the opportunity to enter the commands of step 5. Your quick response with a workable solution to this matter would be greatly appreciated. Ray
We don't document nousb in syslinux so I don't think that nofirewire makes sense either. It's now properly documented in the list of command line options in the install guide as well as the anaconda list of command line options.