Bug 79301 – Installation fails when booting installer-kernel

Bug 79301 - Installation fails when booting installer-kernel

Summary:	Installation fails when booting installer-kernel

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i586 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2002-12-09 15:14 EST by Brian Marsden
Modified:	2008-08-01 12:22 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-09-30 11:40:16 EDT
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Description Brian Marsden 2002-12-09 15:14:24 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 
1.0.3705)

Description of problem:
When attempting to install Redhat 8.0, the kernel (from floppy, boot.img) dies 
when attempting to sort out APICs on Pentium Pro 200 (one cpu).

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from boot.img image floppy
2. press return when syslinux splash screen appears
3.
	

Actual Results:  Hangs on following line:

ESR: value before enabling vector: 00000004

Expected Results:  Should boot fine e.t.c...

Additional info:

Providing noapic and/or nosmp as boot options does not help.

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2002-12-09 15:19:35 EST

can you try "apic" instead ?

Comment 2 Brian Marsden 2002-12-10 14:07:24 EST

Trying 'linux apic' makes no difference - same symptoms.

Any further suggestions?

Comment 3 Alan Cox 2002-12-16 00:15:02 EST

Arjan - some early ppro boxes wont boot with an apic aware kernel.

Comment 4 Miloš Komarčević 2003-01-11 01:05:49 EST

I have the same problem with a Pentium II on 
a Tyan S1686S motherboard.

This problem is present in phoebe as well.

Comment 5 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 11:40:16 EDT

Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/

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