From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: While installing RH 8.0, the installer hangs while conducting the partition check. I can boot with a RH 7.2, with the expert option, then switch the install disk to RH 8.0 when it asks for the location of the install media. It proceeds fine until it comes to the partitioning section, where it crashes completely and aborts the install. I have tried to save the dump to a floppy but the install won't write to the floppy. I have tried several times with the same result every time. This also occurs with RH 7.3. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot with install media for RH 8.0. 2.Hangs while conducting the partition check. 3. Actual Results: System hangs. Expected Results: Successful detection of the partition and continuing with the install. Additional info: This is a new Compaq Presario 1516US. 30GB HDD, 256 MB Ram, 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 Processor.
Could you explain what you mean by 'partition check'? Thanks.
By 'Partition Check' is mean a portion of the boot process just after either 1) Presented with the initial install selection routine, i.e. Install or Upgrade, Expert, ...etc. or 2) I was able to install RH 7.3 using the 7.2 disk as a boot disk, using the expert option, and changing the install media when it asks for the location. RH 7.3 installed just fine but it still hangs when performing the 'Partition Check'. The partition check section begins with the dialog on the screen: "Uniform Multi-platform E-IDE Driver Revision 6.31" "ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; overide with idebus=xx" A few lines below this it has: "Partition Check" "hda " This is where it hangs. I hope this helps.
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