From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: The rh80 installer exited abnormally with the following error messages . Probing for video card: ATI Radeon VE Probing for monitor type: Unable to probe Probing for mouse type: Genric - 3 button mouse (ps/2) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 639, in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() File "/usr/bin/anaconda/iutil.py", line 420, in makeDriveDeviceNodes isys.makeDevInode(drive, /dev/%s" % (drive,)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 265, in makeDevInode _isys.mkdevinode(name, fn) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory) install exited abnormally Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.verified CD media 2.booted the installation kernel with the "linux text" option 3. Additional info: The "noprobe" option might solve this problem. I do not yet the whole installation steps with this option, but the "welcome message" came up when the sym53c8xx kernel module was loaded for the installation kernel. M/B K7VZA 3.0 BIOS 3.6a Mem 512MB Primary Master - IBM UDMA 20GB Primary Slave - SeaGate UDMA100 20GB Secondary Master - IBM UDMA66 13GB Secondary Slave - CD R/RW SCSI Tekram DC-390F Nakamichi MJ-4.8s CD Jukebox
The "noprobe" option solve this problem. I treid whole the installation steps without loading the sym53c8xx kernel module.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74719 ***