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Bug 77181

Summary: Installer stops after loading aic7xxx module
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Michael Herren <michael.herren>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Michael Herren 2002-11-02 14:55:41 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I've tryied to install RedHat 8.0 on my computer. RedHat 7.3 is allready
installed on it. Here the configuration:
- dual Pentium III 1GHz
- 512 MB RAM
- SCSI Adaptec 19160 controller
  - 18GB harddisk
  - 36GB harddisk
- ATI Mach64 video card

The harddisk is partioned as follow:
/dev/sda1   45.5MB    /boot
/dev/sda2   10.5GB    /usr
/dev/sda5   4.6GB     /home
/dev/sda6   372.2MB   /
/dev/sda7   250.7MB   /var


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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Insert first CD in CD-ROM drive
2. Reboot system
3. Test media (-> result ok)
4. anaconda starts
5. X Windows appears for a very short time

	

Actual Results:  The installation process stops. Output listed in the field
"Additional Information"

Additional info:

Running anaconde, the Red Hat Linux system installer - please wait...
Probing for video card: ATI Mach64
Probing for monitor type: Unable to probe
Probing for Mouse type: Generic - Button Mouse (PS/2)
Attempting to start native X server
1...2...3...4...5.... X server started successfully.
Traceback (most recent call last):
	File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 639, in ?
		iutil.makeDriveDeviceNode()
	File "/usr/lib/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(none,fn)
SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory')
install exited abnormally
sending termination signals ... done
sending kill signals ... done
disabling swap ...
unmounting filesystems...
	/mnt/runtime done
	disabling /dev/loop0
	/proc/bus/usb done
	/prod done
	/dev/pts done
	/mnt/source done
you may safely reboot your system
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-11-05 05:25:15 UTC 
The update disk available at
http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/80update.img should fix this problem

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74719 ***
Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2002-12-20 17:38:25 UTC 
Time tracking values updated